The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
I learned at a young age to dribble with both hands, and that allows me to be more creative when I go against bigger and stronger opponents.
Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.
You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of "literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid.
Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?
The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
Success.. is all about being able to extend love to people... not in a big, capital letter sense but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word.
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
The difference between FEELING yourself in action, here and now, and visualizing yourself in action, as though you were on a motion-picture screen, is the difference between success and failure.
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