Architecture is the thoughtful making of space
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Architecture is the thoughtful making of space
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
This year, I will be more thoughtful of my fellow man; exert more effort in each of my endeavors professionally as well as personally; take love wherever I find it, and offer it to everyone who will take it.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no food security, no poverty reduction, no environmental sustainability without transforming our agricultural practices. The book ?presents well documented cases of best practices from all over the world. It should be required reading for all concerned with agriculture, the environment, food security or just the future of our children.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
We don’t ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of Exodus is short on explication, but its stories suggest that introversion plays yin to the yang of extroversion; that the medium is not always the message; and that people followed Moses because his words were thoughtful, not because he spoke them well.
Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.
Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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