The PEOPLE. Quotes
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.
I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.
God doesn't want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that.
Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.
Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.
Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.
The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.
Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).
To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.
Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.
If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.
Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.
The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.
Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others
When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.
That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.
Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.
Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).
Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
The mind grows by taking in, but the heart grows by giving out.
I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.
The more you know, the less you need.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays
Finding the right healing path requires all or nothing. Once you place conditions on healing, all you can achieve is conditional healing.
Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness.
We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.
People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.
Like all stories of creators who bring life from the dead, his story began with a struggling butcher, who chased a gray cat, caught it, took off its studded collar, and slit its throat.
Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.
If you don't demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.
No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children
Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.