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Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules

Beyond miracles, what has lasting significance is love. It wasn’t that Jesus healed a leper, but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

The world, and therefore the workplace, is full of idiots. And the reality of life is that when you get rid of one idiot, another will show up to take his place. It's the curse of humanity.

It's Called Work For a Reason

And she doesn't understand why he doesn't want to put out his medal like a trophy. And he can't tell her that he liberated Europe with a spade.

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

The devil does some of his best work behind stained glass.

The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way

Until one comes who is mightier, The one sprung from misery, The one who was weak, The one who was hunted, The one marked with claw and vine, The one named in secret, The one called Jezelia.

The Kiss of Deception

While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.

The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created A New Mythology

Every man has a weakness!” he patiently explained. “I'll find theirs, I promise you.” “Every man?” “Yes,” he answered emphatically. ... “What is your weakness, Brodick?” she asked. “You.

Ransom

The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

When we bring deep awareness to whatever's bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

There is so much we just can't see or know right now, including precisely how our actions will ripple out.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

I don't know which is worse, going to the library or stealing and breaking the laws of Shabbat, but I know what the prophet's talking about when he says one sin begets another.

The Romance Reader

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary.

The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a chain of small sins so that she could imagine herself full of remorse.

Such Is My Beloved

I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

Honor, obey?" Gisbourne shouted, grappling with John. "This is what you call being a good wife?" I stopped. "I never said I'd be a good wife, Guy. Just that I'd marry you.

Scarlet