If you want it bad enough, you'll put away all of the excuses, and you'll do whatever it takes. If you want it, you'll learn, you'll create, and you'll be patient as you put the effort in. If you want it, you will find a way to make it happen.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.
Forgiveness is not pretending evil never happened, and it is not calling evil good. Forgiveness is setting yourself free by not giving others the power to hurt you again every time you think about them. from Gray Matters
Right now, there are people literally considering leaving their homes to gather with others for worship, wondering: -If I go, can I stand or sit in that area of the sanctuary where we sat together for 18 years before his passing without sobbing so loud I'll distract...
Parents don't come full bloom at the birth of their first baby. In fact, parenting is about growing. It's about our own growing as much as our children's growing, and that kind of growing happens little by little.
People may call what happens at midlife "a crisis," but it's not. It's an unraveling--a time when you need a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're "supposed to live."
You must read to your children and you must hug your children and you must love your children. Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens in the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
The final stage of healing is using what happens to you to help other people.
High School Students: Be kind in high school. Be kind. One day you will get to look at your current classmates at a class reunion. You will get to do business with them in your hometown or elsewhere. You will get to teach your former classmates’ children, or doctor...