Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
The “with God” life is not a life of more religious activities or devotions or trying to be good. It is a life of inner peace and contentment for your soul with the maker and manager of the universe. The “without God” life is the opposite. It is death. It will kill your soul.
A soul without a center feels constantly vulnerable to people or circumstances.
A soul without a center has difficulty making a decision. One of the pictures James uses of this condition is that the double-souled person is like a wave on the sea, driven forward one moment and backward the next. People whose souls are rooted in a center find it brings clarity to their decisions.
Being right is actually a very hard burden to be able to carry gracefully and humbly. That’s why nobody likes to sit next to the kid in class who’s right all the time. One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The soul is not well when we rush so much. If it does not get the rest it needs, it becomes fatigued.
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
We must use time creatively.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.