Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.
The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.
All change begins with a DECISION. Once the decision is made, DISCIPLINE becomes the bridge between desire and accomplishment.
If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.
The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.
Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted.
Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.
You're beautiful this morning," Archer said, stopping before her, kissing her nose. "You're impossibly sweet in my shirt. " That might be but she felt like death. She would gladly make the trade; how blissful it would be to feel impossibly sweet and look like death.
What's the matter?'' She immediately started laughin. ''What's the mattter? Everything is the matter! Rocks! Trees! Atoms! Even anteaters! Everything is the matter!
Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.
People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.