The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.
The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.
I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.
Nature is very clear on this. In fact, there's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks everyday. Now this is a law that's evolved over billions of years and the law is this: nothing in nature takes more than it needs. A redwood tree doesn't take all of the soil's nutrients, just what it needs to grow. A lion doesn't kill every gazelle, just one. We have a term for something in the body when it takes more than its share. We call it cancer.
You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.
I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.
When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.
After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.
THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church.
Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.
The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.