Every man will have several opportunities to be a hero during his lifetime. The trick is to spot them. They usually come disguised as crisis’s, irritating annoyances, economic disasters, dangerous enemies, threatening circumstances and all kinds of other undesirable situations. Opportunity is a master of disguise. This strawberry is part of the Wisdom Strawberries series. [...]
They don’t worry about what to eat – they don’t need to sow or reap or store up food – for your heavenly Father feeds them. Trust in God and flourish like a tree!Solomon, The Preacher (Prov 11:28) These words were spoken by one of the wealthiest men who ever lived.
Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives.Unknown If you want your cat to have more near death experiences in a shorter amount of time, go live next to a nuclear power plant.
By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect ‘Hungry’ …Gary Larson, The Far Side Always be wary when you’re in the presence of a hungry dwarf.
A conversation, that takes place between Santiago and the King of Salem (from The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho): “It’s a book that says the same thing almost all the other books in the world say,” continued the old man.
To live the life that we were designed for, we must learn to look past our simple Earthly desires, and instead allow ourselves to be driven by desires God placed in our hearts when He originally designed us.
However, when you ask someone for help, as long as you do so with a humble spirit – not believing that you deserve to be helped – you are honoring that person.
In return the Land Rover company – the expert – provides you with advice to help you along your journey and supplies you with spare parts when your Land Rover breaks down.
In 1610 Galileo Galilei discovered that the Earth is round, not flat, as was believed by everyone at the time. Common beliefs based on nothing more than the fact that everybody else believes them, is a self-imposed prison of thoughts, dreams and life.
Santiago could see in his father’s gaze a desire to be able, himself, to travel the world – a desire that was still alive, despite his father’s having had to bury it, over dozens of years, under the burden of struggling for water to drink, food to eat, and the same place to sleep every night of his life.A passage from The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho In the story of The Alchemist, Santiago, a young man just out of school, decides to become a shepherd.
