Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear.
So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.
-- Michael Jordan
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
Knowledge Strategy Execution
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.
