Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
I'm proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it's a sign that it's time to leave. For now though, I'm happy here at the greatest club in the world.
I want to be remembered as part of the group of the greatest players ever.
I spent six years at United and I owe them everything that I am today. I made history at United and won many trophies. It was a pleasure to play at Old Trafford.
You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it.
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.
Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.
Remember that, in the end, the customer doesn't know, or care, if you are small or large as an organization - she or he only focuses on the garment hanging on the rail in the store.
A rose on time is more valuable than a $1,000 gift that's too late.
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
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