People tend to avoid taking risks—they are risk averse—when they are deciding among potential gains, potential positive outcomes.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on.
The cross has become a symbol in much of the Western world, misused by many rock stars and others who do not comprehend its significance.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.