Real life is about reacting quickly to the opportunity at hand, not the opportunity you envisioned. Not thinking and scheming for the future, but letting it happen.
Outside of these doors, it is the real world. Someone tries to get you to do something wrong, run.
More depends on my walk than talk.
No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.
Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real. " "Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?,' a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'
There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.
Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
If you're walking the path of the dreamer, everything is possible.
Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.
I don't live in the present, I Am The Present.
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.
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.
Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
Never permit me to disgrace my high vocation by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.
Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.
Our present world contains clues. . . to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Ninety-nine percent of everything you do in life is attitude. If you have a relationship with God. . . you're going to learn to ask the one question in life that covers everything: How can I help you?
