And here’s the surprising truth: As you gaze at yourself in the mirror held by another, you will see far more than your flaws. You also will see the beauty that is uniquely you; beauty...

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...

If having problems feels like a problem to you, it may not be the problems themselves, but the way you think about them that is the problem.

To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood.

The idea that other perspectives exist may not be obvious to those who are in an emotional state of mind.

Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life – looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the...

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one’s own.

Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.

I love objectivity when mine.

It’s not what others have said that hurt us the most. It’s the lies we believed about ourselves that caused us the most pain and hurt.

It’s not how I take tragic news but how I make tragic views that unscrews me.

Resurrection hope turned those who believed it into a counter-empire, an alternative society that knew the worst that tyrants could do and knew that the true God had the answer.

Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives.

Love is not a purpose, it’s a paradox; it’s not an end-goal, it’s an auxiliary fuel source to help get there.

The same view you look at every day, the same life, can become something brand new by focusing on its gifts rather than the negative aspects. Perspective is your own choice and the best way...

We often lose ourselves to where we think we should be, rather than celebrate where we already are.

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box looks like as well. Those who are best at thinking outside...

Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer’s model of the world.

J.R.R. Tolkien tells a story of a man who was better at painting leaves than trees. In fact, the leaves he painted were painstaking and exquisite. He continued to feel a pull to make his...

All stories are true. But some of them never happened.

Historical revisionists find what they set out to find.

History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.

Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this,...

[…] but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed petty and insignificant in comparison with the darkness that overshadowed all existence, so now they seemed as petty and insignificant in comparison with the...

Often it isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the little pebble in your shoe.

Every time I’ve done something that doesn’t feel right, it’s ended up not being right.

You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself

In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our nation. Distracted by the rush of our everyday life, we might shrug it...

The definition of ‘Employment’ by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.

People will insist on building high and wide barriers directly in your path, often with the intent of closing you in. If you treat these obstacles like fencing walls, they will prove mightily so. I...

Some people search out solitude without even thinking that they need to do so–it’s an innate urge with them, something that they do as a matter of course, without even thinking about the psychological benefits...

Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another...

When someone says you can’t, look at where they are sitting. Perhaps they meant they can’t.

Nothing new about death, nothing new about deaths caused militarily. We scorched and boiled and baked to death more people in Tokyo on that night of March 9-10 than went up in vapor at Hiroshima...

Life’s a short trip. You’ll find out.

As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful to them, what is agreeable. The second is the tendency toward...

The experience of history exalts and enlarges the horizon of our intellectual view.

There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human’s mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will...

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated...

If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark.

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy,...

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes].

What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people’s-visions-for-the-future.

The comparison of the 2000s (to the prior two decades) will not be favorable from a historical perspective.

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

The space reminded me of the small hay-bale clubhouses and scrap-wood tree forts that my brothers and I had made as kids – high up spaces where you could see things differently, where you could...

If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.