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No one likes the word “failure” and no one wants to ever experience failure… but the truth is that our failures pave the way for our eventual success and we have only truly failed if we stop trying.

Life is

Now more than ever the world needs your brilliance, your voice, your unique imagination, and your particular genius.

Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.

Beautiful is sick, so we’re here to smother her back to health.

The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals.

The most and best of us depend on others

Black man cleans the streets but mustn't walk freely on the pavement

If you don’t have something grand for men like us to be part of, we will take apart all the little things. Neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Building by building. Family by family.

The reason why we are all different is to allow us to

Not only does depression take away our spiritual and emotional health, it also undermines our physical health.

Research shows that sincere positive feelings--like love, care, gratitude, appreciation, compassion, or joy--smooth out our heart rhythm into a harmonious coherent pattern.

You have the power to treat your own pain, and you can do it without surgery, drugs, or other invasive interventions.

Chronic pain shatters productive lives. Chronic pain almost always is accompanied by depression, anxiety, frustration, fatigue, isolation, and lowered self-esteem.

There is power born of humility . . . Humility, in business and in life, is a powerful asset and does not denote lowliness, unimportance, or self-deprecation.

Rivers don’t drink their own waters

Try to be the best

If someone thinks your ideas, the dreams bubbling up inside of you, are stupid, welcome to the Club.

Dreams don’t get done until they are due.

The past is a hotel. You can visit any time

We want to care most about what Jesus cares most about.

Jesus cares more about our effort than our accomplishments.

Compassion without action is meaningless.

When your goal is not fame or notoriety, you can simply show up, offer compassion to people, and let God do His work.

I realized I could only play-act at the spiritual life as long as my appetites were stronger than my empathy.

My purpose of life is very simple

Life is not just for living

Only kindness is spreadable

Don’t just act with kindness, think with kindness.

Travel, for me, is a breathtaking experience. A humbling for the soul and the realization that we are all in this together.

For every guy who loves being a dad, there’s another who realizes too late that he’s created something his wife loves more than him.

At the unconscious level, Americans believe that good people succeed, that success is bestowed upon you by God. Your success demonstrates that God loves you.

some people are lonely for all the right reasons.

Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.

Time is an insane concept

Setbacks are just stepping stones to great things.

You are never as good as you think you are, and you are never as bad as you believe yourself to be.

There is no higher calling than service to your fellow man, and to do so through your own personal mastery of a craft is a gift enjoyed by few. Cultivate this gift, and give it away.

Your potential for growth is directly proportionate to the degree to which you are willing to make mistakes.

It is only when you take responsibility for your life that you discover how powerful you truly are

We can let our goals motivate and inspire us, but we don’t want to let them determine our happiness or self worth.

Do not get caught pursuing the goals of who you used to be instead of who you are.

The more specifically you define your goals the more attainable they become.

Constantly re-evaluating your purpose is the best way to ensure that you are pursuing the goals of who you are and not who you used to be.

Imagine what your life would be like if you were completely uninhibited by fear, pride, or procrastination. What would you be capable of? Anything.

To accelerate success, we must get as close to our dreams as possible as soon as possible.

If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations.

[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity

Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.

Only God can make the common sacred.