Quotes of: Greatest-lesson Keyword

Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.

Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost the...

Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

The earth is expertly designed to take back what it has created. Bodies left for carrion in enclosed, regulated spaces could be the answer to the environmental problems of burial and cremation. There is no limit to where our engagement with death can...

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Voters—here’s the real challenge: we don’t need empty promises made by politicians whose only goal in life is to get elected or re-elected. We need leaders with attributes that qualify them to lead us through the difficult challenges we’re fa...

Leading With Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton

I know essentially you're some kind of enchantress. Maybe you're still serving your apprenticeship, but you're an enchantress all right. Probably I'd get used to you in time. Right now, it's only my demonic will that's keeping me playing it mighty co...

A Lesson in Loving

You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.

The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Live When It All Seems Too Hard to Take

If we adopt the same collaborative mindset and practices that got to the moon and back, and that built the International Space Station, we can alleviate poverty—and do much more.

The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles

A partner's different perspective is valuable, but the very fact that it is different means that it will require work, humility, time, and resources to incorporate that perspective. At times, this will require checking one's pride at the door.

The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles

At this point I thought 'We made it,' by which I meant 'We survived.' I also was acutely aware that my childhood dream of flying into space had just come true.

The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles

Hello? Do you see me? I'm working as creatively as possible and you want more and more and I'm out of juice and if you send me one more email I'm going to walk into the ocean and swallow water.

Pre Middle Age: 40 Lessons in Growing the Hell Up

Unless you interfere with your belief system, which is where you make most of your decisions, you will recreate the status quo.

When Good Intentions Run Smack Into Reality: Twelve Lessons to Coach Yourself and OThers to Peek Performance

Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It's not the popular ideal, it is the wizard's love - the force that upholds life and nurtures it.

The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want

The basis of everything in the wizards' world rests upon the insight "All this is myself." Therefore, in accepting the world as it is, the wizard views everything in the light of self-acceptance, which is the light of love.

The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want

There are many lessons people can learn about the left. One of the key lessons is they never give anything up. Once they begin a quest, they don't stop until they've got it. The other thing that you need to learn is, they're never happy even after th...

Rush Limbaugh

I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, a...

John Gokongwei

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind eve...

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold

Connect Bible Studies: The Da Vinci Code

Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.

The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears

The waves of probabilities collapse into a physical reality through observation by a conscious mind.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

The ancient teaching of Tao tells us that knowing what you really are is wisdom, and living it is virtue.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential