The cynic in Douglass left him saying, Heaven help the poor slave, whose only hope for freedom is in the selfish hearts of such a people. 32
The truth no matter how hard it is to bear, must be accepted and confronted head on because it is real. Businesses and people who accept truth soar.
Change your thought, change your mind.Change your belief, change your action.
The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?
Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.