None of us is born thinking we are ordinary. Feeling special is an essential part of the human birthright. If you don't think you are special, you won't seek to contribute your gift to the world.
One does what one can, not what one cannot.
The readiness is all.
Life that crawled, life that slunk and crept and never closed its eyes. Life that burrowed and scurried, and life so still it was indistinguishable from the ivy stems on which it lay. Birth, life, and death - each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned.
Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits!
Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
Whatever will be, will be.
What other people think of you is not your business. If you start to make that business your business, you will be offended for the rest of your life.
Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other.
LIFE is that existence that is given to man to live for a purpose, to live to his own satisfaction and pleasure, providing he forgets not the God who created him and who expects a spiritual obedience and observation of the moral laws that He has inspired.
Even as in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in hell there will be the most perfect hate.
God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart. " "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him. " "The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.
Trouble is part of your life
Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
