A thing worse than dying with nothing; is dying without purpose.

The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times, I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found...

We hold onto our flaws because they are insurance for our failures. Every fear serves a purpose. When we cling to unhelpful beliefs and old fears, we can blame failure on them. Growth requires the...

Sometimes the door closes on a relationship, not because we failed but because something bigger than us says this no longer fits our life. So, lock the door, shed a tear, turn around and look...

I have danced to deeply in my shadows, to ever fear the walk of my sunshine

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.

Confidence is a life ingredient that is essential to success and wholeness. It is perhaps the single most important trait that enables seemingly average people to do and become all that they can. And the...

My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted...

Love flows like flowers, and grows like water. I’m so thirsty for romance I could drink a dozen roses.

Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won’t be just like they were before. Damaged pieces reassembled with a...

In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order...

My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.

No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.

An authentic and genuine life grows like a sturdy tree. And like a tree, it grows slowly. Every time you make a different and better decision, it grows a little. Every time you choose to...

Purpose expresses most deeply what makes you a unique individual. Your purpose defines who you are, how you live your life and how you lead. Your purpose provides you with inner strength and drive to...

People interested in change and personal development need larger and larger environments in which to live. Their views expand. Their perspectives broaden. Their interests change. They seek bigger challenges. And they need people in their...

Challenge each problem you face with purposeful thought and determined action. Resolve that ‘every’ situation you encounter will make you better, stronger, wiser, more skillful and more loving.

No work you’ll ever complete;no project you’ll ever attempt;no skill you’ll ever master;no book you’ll ever write;no race you’ll ever run;no sculpture you’ll ever create;no task you’ll ever perform;no structure you’ll ever build;nothing you will...

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago” [Without learning, life is but the image of death]

I firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the call.

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

Hope floats but effort propels.

The struggle to leave the cocoon is what strengthens the butterfly’s wings so she can fly. I am about to become something beautiful.

The market is wondering whether U.S. growth can maintain the current rate, and a weaker reading than expected for GDP will pressure the dollar.

Only the frantic of fear can harm you. Your calm and centered self knows exactly what to do.

The only end to your pain is through fully consuming it and digesting it, otherwise it will consume you.

Your pain was always a part of a plan to open your heart to love.

A combination of growth in the areas of high market activity and consolidation of our position in the remaining markets present exciting prospects for the group.

If you don’t like something in your life, look only at who you are.

You are moving forward one way or another.

Success is not a process of accumulating wealth, building mass relationship or collecting things in excess, but developing, excelling, fostering and growing the happiness for self and others without recess to treat it as the...

Slower growth and tame inflation are certainly more supportive of the dollar than a hard-landing scenario would be.

Don’t be intimidated and at the same time don’t intimidate.

Deliberately feed your subconscious mind by acquiring quality input through the conscious and sensory mind. You need to be aware of your need to be successful in life or any of its endeavours. You need...

Even if the creative brilliance sparks only once, it needs to be accelerated and developed so it has self-sustaining strategies to continue adding value to both the initiator and those it serves.

To become successful, do the little extra things that ordinary people refuse to do. The little extra hard work, little extra practice, little extra studying and the little extra positive attitude.

What we are most concerned with at FedEx is volume growth that provides a compensatory returns, … I’m not as enamored with market share for market share sake as some people who like to write...

Korea’s consumption growth is currently very much dependent on sentiment and unanticipated wealth gains, leading to concerns about the sustainability of consumption recovery.

The best growth at a reasonable price is to be found in the emerging markets, where you have 15% earnings growth, just like in Japan, but multiples of only 10 or 11. We’re expecting another...

Life is a precious gift. A rare journey with opportunity! An opportunity to learn, to grow, to be healed, to love, to shine!

Latin American economies have made a leap to quality. We are totally convinced that this time the economic growth will be much more sustainable than it has been in the past.

If you don’t want your past to own you, try owning your past.

Jiu Jitsu gives me an ideal to strive toward. Technical mastery lies on an infinite continuum and completion of this skill is impossible. Every time I train I have something that I can improve upon,...

Materially higher than expected revenue growth and better than expected cost side performance drove the upside in what we view as a high quality, clean quarter.

I’m tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I’m hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying to break through to what is underneath or I am...

Move forward, never move back except you went the wrong way

That could really crimp consumer spending and hold back economic growth.