Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.
It is life that hurts you not death.
Tell me what it is like to die," I answered. He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while. "You experience something similar every day," he said softly. "It is as familiar to you as bread and butter. " "Yes," I said. "It is like every night when I fall asleep. " "No. It is like every morning when you wake up.
If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its own sake, but only to avoid an early demise. No one would speak out against evil because of his own courageous soul, but only to live another day. The right to choose is man's great gift, but one thing is not his to choose--the time and means of death.
You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories.
Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded.
You have no dower," he said. "Live, Keturah. Go home. " "But I do have a dower," I said plainly. "This is my dower, Lord Death; the crown of flowers I will never wear at my wedding. " He knelt on one knee before me. "The little house I would have had of my own, to furnish and clean. That, too, is part of my dower. " "I will give you the world for your footstool," he said. "And most precious of all, I give you the wee baby I will never hold in my arms.
Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.
Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.
"Spirituality" in business sounds lofty. How practical is it? The answer is "very. " There's a fundamental way in which Spirit and consciousness contribute to worldly success-and it has long been ignored.
You see, there really is no separation between you and everyone else.