Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and
give up. They happen to break read more

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and
give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all
that you were intended to be.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.
Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore read more

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.
Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for
correcting our misperceptions.

What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of read more

What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.

Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows read more

Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and
of apathy into movement without emotion.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and
of apathy into movement without emotion.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of
others.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of
others.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is
so constituted as to maximize play. The best read more

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is
so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which
all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in
which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is
designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and
uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We
survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it
any other way.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a
negative thought.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a
negative thought.