The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.
Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear.
Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to 'develop the heart.
Gratitude is here presented as more than a feeling, a virtue, or an experience; gratitude emerges as an attitude we can freely choose in order to create a better life for ourselves and for others. The Nigerian Hausa put it this way: Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.
Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.
Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you.
The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.
It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.
The media builds you up, and then it tears you down.
Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.
Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.