If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Topic: Opportunity, Perception
- Location: Glen Canyon, Lake Powell
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children.
There's always an opportunity to make a difference.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Limitations are merely opportunities to grow. I use them as stepping stones to success.
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.
To succeed, jump as quickly as opportunity as you do at conclusions.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
It is an ecological, theological, and biological reality: The more we are in tune with eternal nature, the more we will be able to hear the still small voice within and have explosions of inspirational insight.
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
