The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov. ' I read it when I was a senior in high school.
If the map doesn't agree with the ground, the map is wrong.
We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.
Money cannot buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.
It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place. By nature, we are emotional creatures. Often we live and react based on feelings, not logic. Feelings are wonderful, but when we become tied to a particular thought or belief we tend to ignore the fact that change might be necessary.
It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.
Only bad things happen quickly,. . . Virtually all the happiness-produ cing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues.
In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
For any economy, there are two basic factors determining how many jobs are available at any given time. The first is the overall level of activity - with GDP as a rough, if inadequate measure of overall activity - and the second is what share of GDP goes to hiring people into jobs. In terms of our current situation, after the Great Recession hit in full in 2008, US GDP has grown at an anemic average rate of 1. 3 percent per year, as opposed to the historic average rate from 1950 until 2007 of 3. 3 percent.
God can take your most monstrous failures and turn them into triumphs such as you never could imagine.
We're still at the beginning of a major transition in how people communicate and work together.