The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.
I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.