The creative adult is the child who has survived.
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there.
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was an American author who achieved success in the realm of science fiction as well as fantasy.
The tougher the job, the greater the reward.
Forget the past–the future will give you plenty to worry about.
George Allen (1918-1990) was an American football coach. He served as an NFL head coach for two different teams: Los Angeles Rams (1966-1970) and Washington Redskins (1971-1977). He was well-known for his ability to motivate his teams to achieve success.
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.
From Proverbs 3:5-6: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.”
Parker Palmer (born 1939) is an American author and educator. Much of his writing has focused on issues dealing with leadership, spirituality, and social change.
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) served in the United States Army in a variety of roles and assignments. As commanding general, he oversaw the operations in the Pacific theater during World War II. Later, he served as leader of the United Nations Command during the Korean War.
God is for us. I want you to remember that God is for us. Say those four words to yourself, “God is for us.” Remember that tomorrow morning when you don’t feel like He is. Remember that when you have failed. Remember that when you have sinned and guilt slams you to the mat.
From Romans 8:31-32: What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not withhold His own Son but gave Him up for all of us, how will He not with Him also give us everything else?”
I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. (Speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 22, 1861, as Lincoln’s train made a scheduled stop while traveling to Washington, DC for his Inauguration)
This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. (Final words of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, given on November 19, 1863, when he spoke during the commemoration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
Kindness in this world will do much to help others, not only to come into the light, but also to grow in grace day by day.
From Colossians 1:5-6: “Because of the hope laid up for you in heaven, you have heard of this hope before in the word of the truth, the gospel that has come to you. Just as it is bearing fruit and growing in the whole world, so it has been bearing fruit among yourselves from the day you heard it and truly comprehended the grace of God.”
Fanny Crosby (1820-1915) was an American mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer. Her prolific creation of hymns and gospel songs produced over 8,000 finished works.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
Marie Curie (1867-1934) was Polish-born and later became a naturalized French citizen. As a physicist and chemist, her pioneering research in the field of radioactivity led to the discovery of the element of radium.
You know someone is truly special when the most beautiful thing they have one is a kind soul.
If you have no one, you are poor; if you have an acquaintance, you are fortunate; if you have a friend, you are privileged; if you have a lover, you are rich; if you have a soulmate, you are wealthy.
Matshona Dhliwayo is a Canadian-based author and philosopher. Born in Zimbabwe, he shares his unique look at life throughout much of his writing.
In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness courage to fear, hope to despair.
From Psalm 130:5-6: I wait for the Lord; my soul waits, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning, more than those who watch for the morning.”
Howard Thurman (1899-1981) was a American author, theologian, and civil rights leader. His writings mentored many leaders in the civil rights movement, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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