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.

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.

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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.

Japan’s growth prospects look more promising and we are on the threshold of an end to deflation. Yields are set to increase.

oh darling, The darkness is a gift, And when you realise this, You will never be defeatedAgain.

don’t let someone rearrange your path because they lost sight of their own.

Some people ripen, some rot.

Year-over-year revenue growth of 34 percent and earnings growth of 41 percent were the second highest in any given quarter in Apple’s history.

(…)the truths Phaedrus began to pursue were lateral truths; no longer the frontal truths of science, those toward which the discipline pointed, but the kind of truth you see laterally, out of the corner of...

Short messaging services has been the driver of the growth for these companies and I’m not sure if the average investor realizes this. They see an Internet company that recently turned profitable and that’s been...

In what areas are you learning and growing? If the answer is none that means you’re stagnating or regressing. Learn more, earn more, know more, grow more!

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they’re a...

The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don´t give up.

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable,...

Do more than just exist; create to inspire!

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

Inspiration is born when our passion becomes greater than our fear.

If this job growth is due to new demand forecasts in these industries, then we should not see a quick reversal.

It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it? We know now, that it requires a great number of years...

Remember meditation is an active, deep remembrance, and that is discernment. Wherever you go, wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, remember to utilize discernment so that you can hear and sense and feel the vibration...

Summer is a period of luxurious growth. To be in harmony with the atmosphere of summer, awaken early in the morning and reach to the sun for nourishment to flourish as the gardens do. Work,...

The key growth drivers are all in place.

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is. A river is a river, always there, and yet the water flowing through it is never the same water and is never still. It’s always...

Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women...

You are the first person who you should treat with humility. Respect yourself and let it overflow to others.

Wal-Mart’s EPS growth is twice that of the S&P. For the third consecutive year it has seen an increase in operating margins and we believe it still has tremendous growth opportunity over the next 5...

Learning your lesson from a mistake is healthy, but living forever in the emotions of your past mistakes is toxic and debilitating.

The real ladder of opportunity is ascending levels of consciousness.