It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.
You can be only what you give yourself the power to be.
there is no moment more precious than the exact moment you are living now
There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.
You seem to be attracted to trouble," he said. "Yeah, she's real pretty," I replied. "Your tongue is sharper than mine ever was. " I stuck out my tongue and tried to look at the tip of it.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse people less intelligent than you. In any case, it means: Life is tough, so you'd better fight hard-or something like that.
That said, I, Beck Phillips, take full responsibility for being stuck in m y school's pitch-black venting system with my friend Jason, behind me and a garbage bag full of angry bees in front of me.
The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
When you help people, don't wait around to hear them say, "Thank you. " A lot of times we do good things, but in the back of our mind we're hoping to get some appreciation. But if you make your intentions pure, and you expect only from Allah, He will take more care of you than you could ever imagine.
The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.