Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.
Stark times remind our souls that things do not matter. . . people do.
Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.
The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.
Sometimes the greatest victories we can make for mankind are the victories we make over ourselves.
More is required than a common last name to truly be called a family.
Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command.
The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the scientists have not discovered, the first fount of life, is that which happens when a thought takes shape in words.
I don't know about you, but I've saved cards that old high school flames wrote me as well as those that employees have written me over the years. The power of genuine, customized appreciation will never lose its value, even in a gloomy economy. . . in fact, it's probably what we're all thirsty for in this desert of a depression.
I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.
Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.