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Trust is the most important element. By con you can win once and lose forever but with honesty you can win over and over again.

The requirement for advice being received well is that you’ve produced results with your life. Results are what matters!

The best way to go, is just to do it" - Uncle Lanny

The more people grow, the more they attain personal mastery. They become assets to the organization, not liabilities..

Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.

What would you tell her about me?”He did not just ask that.“You did not just ask that.” She chuckled.“I’m serious,” he smiled.“Very well, if you must know, I would say that you are arrogant and foolish, too handsome for your own good and far too cognizant of your own intellect. Unbending, unsympathetic, dogmatic, pig-headed—”“Handsome?” he interrupted, unable to keep the smile from his face. “And intelligent?”“Don’t forget arrogant.

What God knows about me is more important than what others think about me.

Oh precious Lord!Oh precious Lord!Thou know them allThe thought of my mindAnd the desires of my heartThou know them allOh precious Lord! Oh precious Lord!Thou know them allOh precious Lord!Oh precious Lord!Thou know them allDarkness I seeThe joy I want but I can't seeThou know them allOh precious Lord! Oh precious LordThou know them allOh precious Lord!Oh precious Lord!Thou know them allDesires that blindfoldThe end untoldThou know them allOh precious Lord! Oh precious Lord!Thou know them all

You can get what you want. You have to passionately seek the life you desire.

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.

Even the most ambitious among us know to work from the shadows. We’re not interested in another war between Light and Dark. Not until the power balance has shifted, anyway. That’s where you come in. –Aedus Butler

And the hunger that once chewed at them like a mean dog now seems more like an annoying houseguest who simply refuses to leave.

It's said that we can all choose our own destiny. But sometimes, for a special few, destiny has no choice but to choose for you.

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead

When in doubt, shoot 1st and ask questions later, but avoid the head, "because they'rea lot more likely to answer if they're not dead.

Today is the day that you create worlds, you change lives, you make a something, a someone, out of nothing.Today is the day you become a writer.

For instance, a fireman is a brave fellow! He fears nothing, least ofall fire! Well, the fireman in question, who had gone to make a roundof inspection in the cellars and who, it seems, had ventured a littlefarther than usual, suddenly reappeared on the stage, pale, scared,trembling, with his eyes starting out of his head, and practicallyfainted in the arms of the proud mother of little Jammes.[1] And why?Because he had seen coming toward him, AT THE LEVEL OF HIS HEAD, BUTWITHOUT A BODY ATTACHED TO IT, A HEAD OF FIRE! And, as I said, afireman is not afraid of fire.The fireman's name was Pampin.

It's so clear... there's no obstacle before determination. It sees it as an opportunity to shine.

The way you’re talking…” Tears were shining in Kian’s eyes. “It sounds like you don’t think you’re coming back.” Kian to Bree, Spring Frost (Frost Series #7)

... I told him I was so happy that I had nothing else to pray for. 'Why,'says I, I've got prayers to sell.

Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn't the tunnel we pass through that matters, it's what emerges on the other side.

I have no words to save you.

You took your clothes off?""You didn't notice?""No! Jeez Louise, I don't even know you.""If you look under the covers, you'll know me better.""I don't want to know you better!""That's a big fib," Diesel said.

I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.

When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned.

I wondered whether trusting him was merely unwise or if it crossed the line into recklessness, like lying down for a nap in the middle of a road.

When old age knocks, even a mighty lion resort to eating frogs.

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

You know that the pursuit of worldly things does not bring contentment. Find satisfaction in becoming a worker among the Lord's workers

Grandma Harken was sharpening her garden shears. Her hands slowed on the file and she said finally, “He’ll get in trouble and he’ll figure it out. Best to do it without us standing over him. It’s the only way anybody ever learns to clean up after themselves.

Income, that is the thing. I wish an income that will keep flowing into my purse whether I sit upon the wall or travel to far lands.

The 'dance of love' has different themes and moods, just like every relationship has its highs and lows. Enjoy the high moments and hang-on during the downtimes. The diverse range of emotions is the experience that builds you two. Your ability to perfectly switch between these moments and make the best out of the one you find yourself per time, proves that you are not only involved in the relationship like the chicken is in the business of making eggs but also very committed to it like the pig is in the business of making bacon.

Light means knowledge in the Greek language it can also be translated as illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom

In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the nonpersonal, nonreal praying that you've been taught.

Love is the castle, doubt is the moat, desire is the paddle and hope is the boat.

Ah, desire. Such a poisonous thing.

The solution to self-pity is found in the labor of selfless giving to others.

I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous.

Every night we stopped in a cabin where wood had been stacked, matches left, and canned goods laid out for the chance traveler. All the unknown host received in return was a scribbled note giving our thanks, any news we could think of, and our names. This whole system of northern hospitality was a gigantic chain, for while we were eating this man’s beans, he was undoubtedly farther up the trail, eating somebody else’s.

This is why I keep telling Ash to get you a cat or a bird. Guns aren't proper pets.

I must confess to generally hating sections entitled “how to read this book” and soon. I feel that, if I bought it, I should be able to read it any way I damn well please!Nevertheless, I feel some guidelines may be useful.

In Buddhism we would say that you are lazy... Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it .

There are good days and hard days for me. Don't let the hard days win ~Mor ~A Court of Mist and Fury

You can make a text mean anything, especially if it’s old and full of ambiguities.

The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand.

When faced with 2 choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you. But because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air YOU SUDDENLY KNOW WHAT YOUR HOPING FOR. :)

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

But perhaps there are insensitive hearts, still incapable of receiving this Light because the weight of their sins prevents them from seeing it. Let them not imagine that they Light is absent because they do not see it, for on account of their sins they are in darkness. ‘And the Light shone in the darkness, and the darkness understood it not’ (Jn 1:5). Therefore, Brothers, like the blind man exposed to the sun, the sun being present to him but he being absent from the sun, so the insensitive one, the sinner, the impious has a blind heart.

[The moon] ... is an example of practiced stability … it wanes when it must, and reliably returns to full strength … it is a humble model of reasonable potential that I can emulate, and follow.

I should walk away. That would be the right thing to do. It would be the smart thing. But I can't, because I'm Taylor Caldwell, the girl who cuts.

Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic.

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

In life you get the choice, it depends on what you choose and how you live with the consequences to whether you win or lose!

In places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that to help a neighbor is to risk your ability to feed your family, and sometimes even your own liberty, the idea of the mutually supportive poor community is demolished. The poor blame one another for the choices of governments and markets, and we who are not poor are ready to blame the poor just as harshly.

Putting a smile on a child's face can change the world, Maybe not the whole world but at least their world!

He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.

Just because you are available for a relationship, doesn't mean you are ready for one.

I keep staring at the bag in Mrs. Parks's hand: yellows, greens, blues, whites, pastel colors so soft they look as if they have faded in the sea. The washed colors of the sea and sleep. Pajama colors. The colors of baby clothes. In my nose is the smell of my brothers' heads after they are born. Maybe this is why people making journeys buy saltwater taffy. It gives you the lovely dreamy sense that you can start all over again from the beginning.

Only God is the Giver and Master of Creativity and imagination because they are gifts that can only come from Him Alone!