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You have to have two personalities: your home personality and your work personality and the trick really is not to allow one of those personalities to drain the life out of the other.
- Karren Brady
Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
- Albert Schweitzer
The soul is both the most fragile and most resilient thing about you; a healthy soul is what holds you together when your world falls apart. Since you will carry your soul into eternity, it's worth checking up on it at least as often as your teeth.
- John Ortberg
It is OK to be a little selfish about my priorities.
- Sean Covey
Jeanne de Chantal, seventeenth-century founder of the Order of the Visitation, said, "No matter what happens, be gentle with yourself.
- Shane Claiborne
Do not hurry as you walk with grief; it does not help the journey. Walk slowly, pausing often: do not hurry as you walk with grief. Be not disturbed by memories that come unbidden. Swiftly forgive; and let Christ speak for you unspoken words. Unfinished conversation will be resolved in him. Be not disturbed. Be gentle with the one who walks with grief. If it is you, be gentle with yourself. Swiftly forgive; walk slowly, pausing often. Take time, be gentle as you walk with grief.
- Shane Claiborne
The trick is not caring that it hurts.
- Barack Obama
You can't let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There's always a chance you'll want to use it later.
- Barbara Kingsolver
You can't let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There's always the chance you'll want to use it later.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
- Stephen Covey
Too much focus on PC is like a person who runs three or four hours a day, bragging about the extra ten years of life it creates, unaware he's spending them running.
- Stephen Covey
This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute. We are the instruments of our own performance, and to be effective, we need to recognize the importance of taking time regularly to sharpen the saw in all four ways.
- Stephen Covey