When the Bible is understood in its literary and historical context; errors, contradictions, and inconsistencies pose no threat to spirituality, whether that spirituality is theistic, non-theistic, or even explicitly Jesus-centered. The graver threat...
The right to happiness is fundamental.
Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.
Morale and attitude are fundamentals to success.
What difference does it make whether your work is appreciated or not? The work will still be yours. Anyway, most of us are only appreciated after we are dead.
If you REALLY want to know what another person is like, notice how he or she treats the less fortunate or those without position or title.
When you increase in learning and education, you increase your ability to act, and you have a chance to improve your circumstances.
No one can replace you to do what you are destined to do until you totally fail it and leave an empty gap that God will fill.
It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.
Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.
Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.
When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.
No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.
A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Whenever we suffer — no matter what the severity of our suffering is — we have the ability to find meaning in the situation.
Open relating is transparent, godly, with a commitment of the heart, without expectancy and yet devotional; it is similar to what you have with God or Supreme Consciousness.
The quicker your forget unpleasant instances and forgive yourself or others for wrong deeds, the better are your chances of focusing on your aspirations and working towards them.
Being involved with passion is one of the common characteristics I have observed in all the successful people I have come across.
