Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!
If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.
Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.
Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our own souls, but that we might become co-workers with our Lord and Master in the conversion of the world?
You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.
God must become an activity in our consciousness.
When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself. We don't have to worry about what to do. We don't have to figure out solutions ahead of time. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.
In the last analysis, what the Marine Corps becomes is what we make of it during our respective watches. And that watch of each Marine is not confined to the time he spends on active duty. It last as long as he is "proud to bear the title of United States Marine."
Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".
Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.
Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.
Developing inner values is much like physical exercise. The more we train our abilities, the stronger they become. The difference is that, unlike the body, when it comes to training the mind, there is no limit to how far we can go.
The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.
If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage.
The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.
The by-product is that they more people you help, the "richer" you become, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and definitely financially.
You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.
If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.
Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.
Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.
Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become.
Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can always be better.
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