Honore de Balzac Quote

It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.

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.

Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.

There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His...

Stand out tall amidst challenges! Dwarf all irrelevant voices.

If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God.

Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.

Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the...

Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bomb...

Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.