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.

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...

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 acquisition of Lifeline is an important step on our roadmap for growth in healthcare.

When someone’s success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you’ve found someone worth holding on to.

People are becoming more accepting of a slow, gradual recovery, whereas last year, they had great growth numbers in mind, and when that didn’t pan out, markets got hit hard. As long as data don’t...

The government’s scenario calls for about 2 percent growth in the year,

Just because I liked something at one point in time doesn’t mean I’ll always like it, or that I have to go on liking it at all points in time as an unthinking act of...

Energy is precious, use your energy to build not to destroy

No one ever said your life would be easy. The nature of being human makes life for all of us a challenge. The most important thing to consider here is this. Your life is only...

The sector may see modest expansion in the first quarter of 2006, having been a major drag on overall growth in the fourth quarter.

The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.

It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

We currently forecast what we believe is a ‘reasonable’ recovery, which includes assumptions for slightly below-average sequential growth in the third quarter of 3 percent, above average sequential growth in the fourth quarter of 4...

Higher interest rates in the U.S. were really strangling growth in Asia.

The rate of growth of new orders and production is strong while prices were up for a number of commodities, with eleven industries reporting that they are paying higher prices.

The U.S. will continue to be our growth driver. There are many opportunities for us in this marketplace.

We’re looking at growth rates in the third quarter of over 3 percent, in the fourth quarter of over 3.5 percent, and [in all of 2004] of over 4 percent, … If the economy is...

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.

I am a phoenix rising from the ashes of my pain and suffering. Today I am reborn, today begins my growth and change.

He was the mayor of Shively. He oversaw Shively’s growth ‘¦ from a little city to a larger one. The city was disorganized when he took over. He settled it down.

The manufacturing data certainly are positive, but the employment data specifically reinforce the notion that domestic growth is not going be enough to create many jobs.

Growth is betrayal.

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

We’re all a little broken, it’s how we feed our brokenness that defines us; some you wouldn’t believe ever broke and some you will see never grew through the break but one thing certain, everyone...

there’s something about trauma to the mind, body and soul. One day your normal and the next your different; you don’t know what changed but you know nothing’s the same and all of a sudden...