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motivational things-in-life wish
Charles Dickens The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
motivational best-friend friendship
Charles Caleb Colton True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
motivational strength fear
Charles Spurgeon It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
motivational trials teach
Charles Spurgeon Trials teach us what we are.
motivational memories real
Alan Watts The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.
motivational men often-is
Alan Watts The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected - and by physical relations of fascinating complexity.
motivational war heart
Alan Watts If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or nonhuman, we must first come to terms with the minority wand the enemy in ourselves and in our own hearts, for the rascal is there as much as anywhere in the 'external' world - especially when you realize that the world outside your skin is as much yourself as the world inside.
motivational change moving-on
Alan Watts The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
attitude men weather
Charles Dickens There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.
attitude ignorance littles
Charles Dickens A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.
attitude philosophy book
Charles Stanley God wants you to understand the Word of God. The Bible is not a mystery book. It's not a book of philosophy. It's a book of truth that explains the attitude and heart of almighty God.
attitude important spirit
Charles Stanley Attitude and the spirit in which we communicate are as important as the words we say.
attitude lying reality
Charles Stanley Renewing the mind is a little like refinishing furniture. It is a two-stage process. It involves taking off the old and replacing it with the new. The old is the lies you have learned to tell or were taught by those around you; it is the attitudes and ideas that have become a part of your thinking but do not reflect reality. The new is the truth. To renew your mind is to involve yourself in the process of allowing God to bring to the surface the lies you have mistakenly accepted and replace them with truth. To the degree that you do this, your behavior will be transformed.
attitude mean example
Alan Watts What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you are doing than if you were, for example, doing it for kicks.
attitude mirrors people
Alan Watts Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
attitude opposites belief
Alan Watts And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
attitude distance journey
Alan Watts We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and energy just at the right distance from it. It's beautifully equipped with oxygen, with food supplies, with all kinds of delightful things to do while on the journey.... and it's traveling through space at a colossal speed... and it's called the planet Earth.
war ambition mean
Charles Caleb Colton For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.
war winning games
Charles Caleb Colton War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
war hands fog
Charles Caleb Colton Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
war opinion conflict
Charles Caleb Colton Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.
war writing fighting
Charles Caleb Colton Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
war long body
Charles Caleb Colton Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.
war heart character
Charles Dickens Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?
war believe blow
Charles Dickens I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.
war believe writing
Charles Stross There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?