Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone.
Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.
There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.
I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks too much in a strictly negative connotation. Perhaps this is in a sense food for thought, whereas the other is fool for thought.
The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.
History does seem to repeat itself hence it's mindboggling to still hear the 'avoid all negative people' speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual teachers. Ironically, their congregations would probably be the ones hiding their faces from the accuracies of truth speakers like Christ. Now, Christ was the complete opposite of negative, however the danger is that truth is often misunderstood as negativity by those who are constantly taught to only seek flattery.
The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.
The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.
The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.
One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.
A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a magnificent feast for us.
Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.
The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.
Music is not my life. My life is music.
The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.
Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.
The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.
People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.
From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.
Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.
It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.
A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.
What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.
Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.
The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.
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