You'll never really be great unless you aim high.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.
the shell must break before the bird can fly.
Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet.
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
The mighty hopes that make us men.
A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company. " Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.
I'll always love Paraguay. It's this most exotic place configured out of the imagination, the whole country. Paraguay will always be a special place in my heart. I go back a long way. I first arrived as a refugee in 1982 from the Falklands War. So it was a safe haven then, and it has become something exotic since then. I feel like I'd like the dust to settle a little bit before going back.
Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine.
Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.