Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

To make headway, improve your head.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

The doer alone learneth.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

If you deserve it, go get it.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

God always wants us to be growing.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

You fail only if you stop writing.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Simplify, simplify.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.