True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Twisting and wiring and stringing starching and curling, delicately painting spots and shadings on scraps of silk until what had been nothing more than a pile of brightly colored fragments had been transformed into the silk irises, forget-me-not, violets and roses that would adorn the hats of women and girls more fortunate than themselves.
And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.
Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.
The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
Although we think of them as extraordinary, miracles also streak across our consciousness every day. We can choose to notice or ignore them, unaware that our destinies may hang in the balance. Tune into the presence of miracles, and in an instant, life can be transformed into a dazzling experience, more wondrous and exciting than we could even imagine. Ignore it, and an opportunity is gone forever.
At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, everything was transformed and enchanted, and everything made sense.
The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.
Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.
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