When we work creatively and productively with others, our experience of meaning can be profound. When we work directly for the good of others, meaning deepens in ways that reward us beyond measure. Whenever we go beyond satisfying our own personal ne...
What was the payoff? It obviously kept me in my cozy zone of being in control, being a good mother, with a good daughter. Most of all, I realize, is that it allowed me to maintain the lie that she was healed, that Nick hadn't permanently damaged her,...
Are you really surprised by the endurance of religion? What ideology is likely to be more durable than one that conforms, at every turn, to our powers of wishful thinking? Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human b...
The revolution goes on; a man does not make the revolution, not a thousand men, not an army and not a party; the revolution comes from the people as they reach toward God, and a little of God is in each person and each will not forget it. This it is ...
Phil: [talking to a sleeping Rita] I think you're the kindest, sweetest, prettiest person I've ever met in my life. I've never seen anyone that's nicer to people than you are. The first time I saw you... something happened to me. I never told you but...
Song of myself With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons. Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battl...
Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
Locks can not be made from good iron, soldiers are not made out of good people.
The unsuccessful person neither thinks nor acts; the average person either thinks or acts; the successful person thinks and then acts!
Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone’s life
A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.
After bearing the consequences of a mistake, the person either becomes a better person or completely succumbs to the atrocity.
A person's current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.
I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.
In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.
As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
Material Girl is about having your own personal style, and my personal style reflects the brand's aesthetic.
I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.
Personal power depends on the power of imagination; personal achievement depends on commitment and conviction.
If it feels good saying it. It's probably not a good thing to say.
