The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.
What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
Many people struggle with losing weight and then regaining it. But there is no convincing evidence that the effort to lose weight actually promotes more weight gain in the long run.
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
Give form to your vision. Disregard the fact that it appears to entail efforts. Express what you have inside and communicate it everywhere.
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.
My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.
Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.
It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics.
In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.
Everyone is slowly catching on to this one - and I know everyone says this - but we need to make a little more effort with the environment. Everyone says they turn off their lights, but do they really?
I make a sincere effort to do some form of exercise every day, except for Sunday. That's church and hang out day.
Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.
Love is not really a mystery. It is a process like anything else. A process that requires trust, effort, focus and commitment by two willing partners
'Marbles' really took so much and such a thorough effort from me that I was so happy to tie that up and have it feel satisfying.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
I believe every single person on this planet is a dreamer but you have to make a vigorous effort to make it in life.
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
