True happiness is a state of being,not one of doing or having.

Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.

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...

Don’t ever let rejections or failures put you down and keep you from trying. Believe in yourself, have an unwavering desire to excel, put in your best your efforts, persevere and you will blaze your...

Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?” (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is...

You may not attain the highest height with one leap but my dear; you will reach your destination.

One should not have to live in the dark.

A woman that is patient has the ability to endure provocation, pain, annoyance etc, with much calm and strength.

I thought of myself mixing the fragrance of a certain day – the heavy musk of the hillside after the rain with the lightness of fresh blossoms doused in the downpour. I thought of each...

Our Success or Stagnation depends on the level of Agreement that we have with the people around us.

Change in ourselves equals change in our society.

Ish #28 “Give you child a name with meaning.

No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams.

The density of your destiny is the product of the mass of your visions and the volume your impacts occupy!

There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say “It is yet more difficult than...

Love changes things; hope allows us to endure until the change arrives.

Even where there are no schools, there are teachers.

It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one’s life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act...

May our eyes focus rightly on Christ … before the need to please others, before church, and before the busyness of Christian life. Those things will surely have their place, but they will be most...

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

we can not change history, we can not turn back time, but we can change ourselves,change for the better.

A con artist, a total imposter, had played on my desires for the Cinderella dream and won a Monopoly trip to jail. I had hoped for uprightness, integrity, and potentially a relationship. Longing overshadowed the...

When gangs took over the [abandoned public land in Philadelphia] and the neighborhood took a turn for the worse, horses became a way of saving lives. By getting boys interested in raising a horse rather...

Work filled with inspiration is worship. A heart filled with courage is unbreakable. A life filled with gratitude is fulfilled.

You can always learn to do more than you can at any point in your life.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection

Start each day asking, “How do I want others to feel?” Then act accordingly.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

There will come a time,’ I said, ‘when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or...

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time – in fact, the only time – to make a real change in your life is in...

Today is a great day of inspiration and gaining strength to move forward with determination and purpose.

If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write?Now, write that book.

Squeeze a persons whole life together and then it all makes sense.

Encouragement is life.Many people will have given up in life without encouragement. May your words be gracious to those who hear it.

My friends, we should consider ourselves fortunate, not because we are any greater or lesser because we face adversity, rather we simply rejoice in the opportunity to face it.

My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation...

Listen: You can’t short-circuit the learning process. It takes time to get to the top, and that’s good-because by the time you get there, you’ll have learned what you need to know in order to...

Answer the internal dialogue. Speak to parts of your being that have lived untouched, neglected, unnurtured. Emerge— healed, transformed. true.

The difference between vampires and angels? Angels are real.

You don’t need to wait for inspiration to write. It’s easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing…

Brands play in an exciting sandbox of symbolic meanings.

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

Pick the paper off the floor, throw it in the trash, study—even if you think you already know the subject, say thank you for an act of kindness, and be the support you want to...

I always wondered what the four letters in LIFE stand for. I now understand that they stand for: Little Interesting Facts Every day.

It’s not your schedule that keeps you from praying, it’s your failure to realize the importance of prayer.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else–that’s how you’ll get ahead.

Test your talents, pursue your passions, and let those experiences lead you to a sure sense of who you are. Build a strong core for yourself so that almost nothing and no one can shake...

My course, navigating the sea of life, begins with a goal sighted in the lens of my telescope.

Seeds strive to become plants by forcing their way through the soil. We can learn from this and push through the struggles we face in life. If they can survive, we can do much more....