Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.
William Arthur WardRead
A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.
Interpretation
Forgiveness is essential for personal freedom and peace.
This quote emphasizes the importance of forgiveness in leading a fulfilling life. It suggests that holding onto grudges and resentments can trap individuals in a state of emotional turmoil, likened to a prison, thereby hindering their ability to experience joy and connection with others. By embracing forgiveness, one can break free from this confinement and promote healing and happiness.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth and emotional well-being.
Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
Do more than be fair: be kind.
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
What the hell could you do? I've never been arrested, I haven't taken drugs, I've had the same wife for 54 years; where's anything of interest to people?
...my heart may have been in it but my soul was not.
Funerals...are for the living.
Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.
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