The PEOPLE. Quotes
You are in control of your priorities – you can erase old priorities and define new priorities at will.
Perhaps that is the only cure for jealousy, to realize that the people we resent and envy for having what we lack, probably have woundsand scars of their own. They may even be envying us.
The nightmare of Trump is not that he doesn't care what people think
She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics
Maybe it shouldn’t have come as such a surprise, but like a tooth extraction, there was a moment of intense pain and then a numbing sense of loss. I was officially unmarried.
I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good
It’s not enough to love your product. You have to love your customers, too, every single one—those who complain the most are the ones who control the keys to your survival.
Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
You would destroy yourselves but He would be your savior.
School is a hospital where people recover from ignorance
The media's job is not to inform you
He discriminated against neither the avaricious nor the prodigal: both were committed to the asylum
When we seek God for answers, we must persevere in prayer, letting it build up day after day until the force of it becomes a mighty tide pushing over all obstacles.
I begin the chapter and book on very elementary reasoning and a simple description: this description of relationships developed naturally and socially
Self-confident people Inspire confidence in others
Being in touch with your strengths and weaknesses, as well as what motivates you, will help you be more successful in your job.
There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next
We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new things.
Afterward, there was that long, crowded pause in which everyone decides that although they are very shaken, and possibly upside down, they are, to their surprise, still alive.
The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul.
He'd shot and beaten people because he couldn't talk to them.Violence was the only language nobody could understand. There were no translators.
People focus on role models
Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now
He (Chuck Smith) was leery of music that moved the body more than the soul.
Americans consider the United States an exceptional nation
Love covers all shortcomings and failures, overlooks one's mistakes and does not bring to mind one's past mistakes - My Last Letter, Chapter 1
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be andhe will become as he can and should be.
Be happy NOW. Feel good NOW. That's the only thing you have to do. And if that's the only thing you get from reading this book, then you have received the greatest truth of The Secret.
You get to choose your decision, but you don't get to choose the consequences.
And that’s the truth I needed to swallow: people don’t step out and love for you
it (love) must be a conscious choice and not an emotional response (Matthew 5:46).
All conversation, big or small, is about painting word pictures of your experiences for other people. The more
Understanding what is being said is only a fraction of the task of communicating. Taking in signals from the entire context is critical.
No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood
Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.
Do not be a people without a will of your own saying: If others treat well you will also treat well and if they do wrong we will do wrong