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You won't get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that.
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.
In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.
Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.
The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
I started writing really early on, and my brother Jordan was my first audience. I would come up with scary stories to tell him at bedtime.
I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.
No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.
Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.
After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity.
Who you are is always enough. If your partner wants something different, it does not reflect upon you, but upon their needs and fantasies.
I have incredible respect for customers and peers - my curriculum is very strong because I was taught by my clients' reactions to my work.
There is nothing more vulnerable than creativity. . . It's not about winning, it's not about losing, it's about showing up and being seen.
But I don't think it's as dangerous, scary, or terrifying as getting to the end of our lives and wondering, what if I would have shown up?
Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!
The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings and not as corporate functions.
Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings.
I was asked by a golfer how to lower his scores. I replied start playing 9 holes instead of 18. I worked for me, it cut my scores in half.
As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.
Baptism is the gate through which all must enter to accomplish the Lord’s desire to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?
War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.
War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.
Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.
Don't change just so people will like you! Like yourself and your relationships will change. There are people who will love you for - YOU.
The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.
Just because a person is young doesn’t mean that being loyal to someone isn’t important. And it still hurts if someone isn’t loyal to you.
A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.
A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.
Therefore, when you enter into anything, as a frightened being, that contract you make with another person out of fear, has to fall apart.
Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself.
You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake.
You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.
Yes, Consul. The next time one of our esteemed members turns into a worm and eats another esteemed member, we will inform you immediately.
She had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and desperate and wild. Or that it would taste of holy water. Holy water and blood.
Do you think she’ll catch him before he gets to the hall?” “My mom’s spent her whole life chasing me around,” Clary said. “She moves fast.
It was truly amazing, Clary thought, how much teenage boys were able to eat without ever gaining weight or making themselves sick. -pg.68-
Magnus wants to shout at me, don’t you, Magnus?” (Jace) “Yes,” Magnus said, tearing his eyes away from Alec long enough to scowl. -pg.275-
To be friends is a beautiful thing, Tessa, and I do not scorn it, but I have hoped for a long time now that we might be more than friends.
Pam said, "Sookie, I brought you something, too. I never thought I'd want to spend time with a human, but you're more tolerable than most.
Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.
All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life being his own psychiatrist.
Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.
Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.
Feeling good about your life, but not expressing a heartfelt 'thank you,' is like wrapping a gift for someone and never giving it to them.
Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.
Regret is what you should fear the most. If something is going to keep you awake at night, let it be the fear of not following your dream.
For a product to really be sustainable, it's really got to deliver the goods for the end user. That drives the whole rest of the equation.
The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.
The real feeling of youth comes when we actually think in the consciousness of youth and give the realization of the now to every thought.