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...

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

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.

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

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...

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.

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

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.

Hope floats but effort propels.

We are now forced to actively pursue our struggles. If we do not go out of our way to stretch our comfort zones and grow, no one nor nature will do it for us.

They’re showing better revenue growth than a number of their peers and more importantly it’s improving for them.

After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient...

If growth is slowing because of a supply restraint, that would mean demand putting upside pressure on prices, making these remarks hawkish.

For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.

The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man’s interpretation of his life and struggles.

It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept...

Visiting new places and meeting interesting people – even if “What remained after paying the rent for the Tel Aviv flat, which I shared with a roommate, and the tuition at university was close to...

The acquisition of Lloyd’s Barbeque had a large impact on Minnesota employment figures. We expect continued growth in the coming year; however, we won’t speculate that growth will continue at the same rate.

We really don’t see a double dip, just slow economic growth,

We expect 2006 to be the year that 2005 should have been. We project strong employment growth 2 percent or better that will begin to stretch many segments of the local labor force.

We have a 50 percent penetrated market in the U.S. So there’s plenty of growth ahead in the MS market.

We think we’re going to see recovery by second half of the year and that growth can be quite brisk,

Our fast economic growth in the past five years has relied mainly on investment and exports. This growth model will increase instability of economic growth, even though it can realize fast expansion in a short...

We’ve just come off the strongest three-quarter GDP (gross domestic product) growth in 20 years, and [in] the last three months, we’ve created nearly a million jobs, … I think we’re going to see more...

Better is the most important step to becoming your best. If you want to be your best, you need to start by getting better. Start doing better. Good, better, best. That’s how it works.

The solar shortage will be most pronounced in 2006, and we anticipate only modest solar industry production growth of 9 percent.

We are in infancy now. The next five years will see lots of growth in terms of restoration and programming.

Overall, the headline figures are solid. January inventory figures are still on the path for solid growth in the first quarter.

Sometimes our inability to be Christlike happens because… we don’t care. But sometimes it happens because we are naïve about our own hidden darkness.

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

Like a wild flower; she spent her days, allowing herself to grow; not many knew of her struggle, but all eventually knew of her light.

First quarter economic growth is proving quite robust. With showrooms awash in new products and the spring selling season upon us, the industry should be going strong in March.

By your choices you reveal your commitments.