If your best friend's feeling tearful, Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of sad tales by the score. And when she is through, She'll feel as good as.
I know of nothing that I feel is of so great value in life as to be obedient to the counsel and advice of the Lord, and of His servants in this our day.
The will of a wealthy New York woman, in addition to distributing her worldly goods to her children, left them the following advice: Love one another. Hold fast to that whether you understand one another or not, and remember nothing really matters except being kind to one another in the name of Christ and to all the world as far as you can reach.
The trouble with good advice is that it usually interferes with our plans.
Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part of the founding myth which states need - but which they should move on from after a time. Major John MacBride, in a cameo performance in which he left Jacobs Mill, as he had entered it, immaculately dressed down to the white spats, told his colleagues Next time lads, don't shut yourself up behind four walls. It was good advice.
Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time.
Unlike physical progress, which is subject to natural restrictions, the qualities of the mind can be developed limitlessly.
The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.
If you're going through hell, Keep on going, don't slow down, If you're scared, don't show it You might get out Before the devil even knows you're there.
Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!
I've noticed the people most uptight about smokers and drinkers don't really have a problem with gluttony and gossip.
A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability
I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.
Anytime you feel jealous or envious, you reject your uniqueness. It's a criticism of God's plan for you.
We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.
Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.
When I had all the answers, the questions changed.
Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger.
Every time you make a bad choice, it becomes harder to make a good one.
Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership.
What's true or right is NEVER determined by popularity or polls. The right thing is often unpopular since it's harder to do.
Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.
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