When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
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Impossible is just an opinion.
Two of the hardest tests in life: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:the fear of failure.
Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives, forgetting loses the lesson.
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Do not hide your faith and your beliefs under a bushel basket, especially in this world that seems to have gone mad with political correctness.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander.
Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.
But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.
The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.
