No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire
My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of signif...
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.
Angry is always hungry to cook guilty.
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...
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
I looked long and hard for the paper roses! I found the reddest red ribbon, and a little golden card! We were all there together, many of us, in the same place; but I was the only one who found the pa...
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
I think you have to be cool to be a good flirt, and I don't think I'm very cool.
Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.