You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.
Og MandinoRead
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Interpretation
Cherish the love you receive, as it outlasts physical health.
This quote emphasizes the importance of love as a lasting gift in our lives. While physical well-being may fade, the affection and connections we nurture with others are what truly remain and give life meaning.
In practice
Including this quote in a wedding speech to highlight the importance of love.
You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.
Why do we continue to breed little minds who can find no recompense for their own failures other than to belittle and mock the talents, even the dress, of others? When will everyone realize that we are all equal in the eyes of God?
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.
Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.
Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.
Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.
What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.
Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.
He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.
And yet ... But what if ... I want to do something impossible. Something astounding and unheard of. I want to scrub the moss off the Space Shuttle and fly Julie to the moon and colonise it, or float a capsized cruise ship to some distant island where no one will protest us, or just harness the magic that brings me into the brains of the Living and use it to bring Julie into mine, because it's warm in here, it's quiet and lovely, and in here we aren't an absurd juxtaposition, we are perfect.
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