Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time.
If one person is happier because you have lived, it is all worth it. And if you are that person, God is well pleased.
Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.
The purpose of prayer is not to change God's mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God.
The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.
We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.
Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.
The cliche is dead poetry.
Now, I testify it is a small voice. It whispers, not shouts. And so you must be very quiet inside. That is why you may wisely fast when you want to listen. And that is why you will listen best when you feel, "Father, thy will, not mine, be done. " You will have a feeling of "I want what you want. " Then, the still small voice will seem as if it pierces you. It may make your bones to quake. More often it will make your heart burn within you, again softly, but with a burning which will lift and reassure.
Over the years I have realized that the mistakes and forgetfulness is what makes live shows more endearing.
Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion , a truth , a leader, a nation, a race, a part or a holy cause, we are also proclaiming our own uniqueness.