People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under. It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere. Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people. We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge. There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom. Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does. When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it. Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? | 
