I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.
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I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.
Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.
I want to say one word to you and this word is “Joy”. Wherever there are consecrated people, seminarians, men and women religious, young people, there is joy, there is always joy!
If you have a problem with people living their lives and being authentically who they are, you really should go and do some soul-searching.
You hold in your hands the happiness of more people than you can imagine.
Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you.
Dear young people, Jesus gives us life, life in abundance. If we are close to him we will have joy in our hearts and a smile on our face.
Brave people don't live forever, but cautious people don't live at all.
The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
Persons, especially salaried people who schedule their spare time, to provide for home study (or attend specialized short courses, seminars or training) seldom remain at the bottom very long. Their action opens the way for the upward climb, removes many obstacles from their path, and gains the friendly interest of those who have the power to put them in the way of opportunity
People are effective because they say 'no,' because they say, 'this isn't for me.'
I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.
To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.
Now, if you want to get rich, you have only to produce a product or service that will give people greater use value than the price you charge for it. How rich you get will be determined by the number of people to whom you can sell the product or service.
What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.
There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
People routinely assume that pornography is such a difficult and divisive issue because it's about sex. In fact, this culture struggles unsuccessfully with pornography because it is about men's cruelty to women, and the pleasure men sometimes take in that cruelty. And that is much more difficult for people-- men and women-- to face.
Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events; a tendency to find meaningful purpose in life’s turmoil; and a conviction that they can learn from both positive and negative experiences.
Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people's minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and represents.
I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.
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