Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
The couples that are meant to be, are the ones who go through everything that is meant to tear them apart, and come out stronger.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
The man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.
It's easy to be heavy; hard to be light.
I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller
Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else. Somewhere else retribution will come on the real offender. Here it often seems to fall on the wrong person.
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments.
I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.
Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.
As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.
The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.
All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
Culture, like science, is no protection against demons.
Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
...the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain.
...even nursery tales only echo an almost pre-natal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised or dissected or explained or explained away. It was a place of dreams come true.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.
He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.
There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.
Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.
Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.
But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.
The philosophical case against theism is rather easily dealt with. There is no philosophical case against theism.
Man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
The historian has a habit of saying of people in the past: 'I think they may well be considered worthy of praise, allowing for the ideas of their times.' There will never be really good history until the historian says, ‘I think they were worthy of praise, allowing for the ideas of my time.
The truths of religion are unprovable; the facts of science are unproved.
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Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
