Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush. It can color any situation.
It takes the idea that we must apply reason to nature and our consciences in order to discover what is moral and replaces it with the idea that if it feels right, just do it, baby.
Do not confuse calm with inertia. Calm is self-possessed strength, quiet and conscious energy, mastery of the impulses, control over the unconscious reflexes. In work calm is the source of efficiency and an indispensable condition for perfection.
Just know I’m with you. Every stream, every lake, every field and river. In the woods and in the hills, in all the places you showed me. I love you.
I’ve said I understand. Stop fighting after you have won.
If Feynman could see beauty as the inspiration for the theory of the rainbow, and if an electron could behave like a wave, and light like a particle, then the little contradiction of Leonard flitting among different subfields of physics, or even among varied careers, would not shake the universe.
Attractive as some things are, you have to weigh your risks. How badly do you want it, how badly are you willing to be burned?
Modern polarity is nothing but the ‘dual world’ described by Krishna here in the Bhagavad Gita.
Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.
Tessa pulled out her cell phone and slouched into one of the airport chairs, ergonomically designed to cause permanent back problems.
Type? My only specifications for a man are two hands and a p – ” “Dina!” he barked. She grinned at him.
Oh yes, on a scale of one to ten, ten being perfect, this kiss was a twelve. Maybe even a twenty.
She had a date. With Phillip Banks. The Phillip Banks, of her many and varied fantasies. And this time, she hadn’t even gotten him drunk first.
The people who will thrive in this new world order are those who can repeatedly and successfully transform themselves: Reinventors.
In 1913, George Bernard Shaw described witnessing the cremation of his mother. Her body was placed in a violet coffin and loaded feet-first into the flames. “And behold!” he wrote. “The feet burst miraculously into streaming ribbons of garnet coloured lovely flame, smokeless and eager, like Pentecostal tongues, and as the whole coffin passed in it sprang into flame all over; and my mother became that beautiful fire.
The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.
Legality, therefore, is not able to set thee free from thy burden.
I Want to be Your Favorite Hello and Hardest Goodbye.
I think you will find this most illuminating. The note was unsigned. She opened the folder. It looked like a letter. Lots of letters. She put on her glasses and started to read.
But they are turning not to politics as their lever but to social enterprise, to nonprofits, to advocacy, to business. They see that Wendy Kopp, who founded Teach for America in her dorm room at Princeton University, has had more impact on the education system than any current senator, and many have given up on political paths to change.