“An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing' a surprising but welcome pregnancy” ShouldGovernmentWonderfulSurpriseWelcomePregnancySurprisingPreventing Author:Wendy Wright
“I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.” PeopleThinkingWayBodySpiritFoodCookingPreparingFeedingNourishmentFragilityPreparing Food Author:Shauna Niequist
“You have to drop your sales mentality and start working with your prospects as if they've already hired you.” IfsMentalityProspectsMotivational Sales Author:Jill Konrath
“True patience is grounded in wisdom and compassion.” CompassionVirtueGrounded Book:Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living Source: Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
“The world is full of men who want to be right, when actually the secret of a man's strength and his pathway to true honor is his ability to admit fault when he has failed. God wants to fill the church with men who can say they are wrong when THEY ARE WRONG. A man who is willing to humble himself before God and his family and say: "I was wrong." will find that his family has all the confidence in the world in him and will much more readily follow him. If he stubbornly refuses to repent or admit he was wrong, their confidence in him and in his leadership erodes.” IfsMenWorldWantLeadershipChurchAbilitySecretWillingHonorFaultsRefuseHumbleRepentPathwaysErode Author:Jim Anderson
“I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.” WestWorkersStrikesGoldenCorporationsCaliforniaControlledFarmersSouthernPreacherTailsLegislaturePacificRailroads Author:Mother Jones
“What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.” WayWantLoveNeedsFeelsFirstsLittlesDoeDreamTogetherGirlWinningChangeLosesChangedHairClothesRainYour DreamsLittle ThingsWant SomethingJerkPossessingGumWatercolorsYou Changed Author:Jeff Melvoin
“"The "art of tea" is a spiritual force for us to share."” ArtSpiritualForceShareTea Author:Alexandra Stoddard
“The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.” LoveGivingChildrenLife IsParentUps & DownsGreatest Gifts Author:Doc Childre
“Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.” HeartTongueReins Author:Minna Antrim