You can never ride on the wave that came in and went out yesterday.
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.
This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth.
Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. . . . they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart
No one ever complained their way to the top.
churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.
There's a big shift in our whole way of living, and it started maybe 10 years ago when [smartphones] came into existence. Up until then, we were at the mercy of the press, and so-called experts that would tell us what to think and how to think.
Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it. If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us. . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place.