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You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well
Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.
They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.
Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.
All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.
Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
Don't even wait until you've lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat on the back.
Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. Then act upon it.
If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves.
I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.
Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.
I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.
The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.
As I have yet to meet a gentleman I wished to spend the rest of my days with, I would say the failure was on their part rather than mine.
I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them.
So that I may meet the day with the knowledge to build the day I will look into my soul while it still dawn, before the morning breaketh.
A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.
Just as the right relationship with Christ generates a Christian, so the proper relationship with the Holy Spirit breeds a spiritual man.
The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, ‘Here comes my food.!
Don't die with your music (stories/talents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul.
I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise.
Christ wasn't teaching people to hate Jews. He was a Jew himself. He wasn't teaching people to hate anybody who didn't believe as he did.
We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security.
All life has emptiness at its core; it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes the music that is our life.
We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.
Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
Ours is no bloody battle With woe and horror fraught Our joust is of a gentler kind A measuring of Mind with Mind A tournament of thought
A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters.
Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.
A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.
When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."
Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it.
The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.
Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
You should have certainty in what you do. Anyone who has done anything in this world was hated. If you're not hated, you've done nothing.
To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.
From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.
When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.
The message is clear. It is not what is happening 'out there.' It is what is happening between your ears. It's your attitude that counts.
Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.
Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.
If you cannot worship the Lord in the midst of your responsibilitie s on Monday, it is not very likely that you were worshiping on Sunday!