Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come, and the years draw near when you will say, "I ha...ve no pleasure in them"; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return with the rain; in the day when the guards of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the women who grind cease working because they are few, and those who look through the windows see dimly; when the doors on the street are shut, and the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low; when one is afraid of heights, and terrors are in the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will go about the streets; before the silver cord is snapped, and the golden bowl is broken, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel broken at the cistern, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the most important findings to come out of our research is that being where you want to be is good for you. We found a very... strong correlation between preferring the role you are in and well-being. The homemaker who is at home because she likes that "job," because it meets her own desires and needs, tends to feel good about her life. The woman at work who wants to be there also rates high in well-being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had a strong curiosity to be satisfied if he persisted in disbelieving a future state even when he had death before his eyes....... I asked him if the thought of annihilation never gave him any uneasiness. He said not the least.... "Well," said I, "Mr. Hume, I hope to triumph over you when I meet you in a future state; and remember you are not to pretend that you was joking with all this infidelity." "No, no," said he. "But I shall have been so long there before you come that it will be nothing new."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They were two strong men, these oddly different generals, and they represented the strengths of two conflicting currents that, thr...ough them, had come into final collision. Back of Robert E. Lee was the notion that the old aristocratic concept might somehow survive and be dominant in American life. Lee was tidewater Virginia, and in his background were family, culture, and tradition.... Grant, the son of a tanner on the Western frontier, was everything Lee was not. He had come up the hard way and embodied nothing in particular except the eternal toughness and sinewy fiber of the men who grew up beyond the mountains. He was one of a body of men who owed reverence and obeisance to no one, who were self-reliant to a fault, who cared hardly anything for the past but who had a sharp eye for the future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Compliant children are very easily led when they are young, because they thrive on approval and pleasing adults. They are just as ...easily led in their teen years, because they still seek the same two things: approval and the pleasing their peers. Strong-willed children are never easily led by anybody--not by you, but also not by their peers. So celebrate your child's strength of will throughout the early years...and know that the independent thinking you are fostering will serve him well in the critical years to come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are born into them, marry into them, even create them among the people we love. They come large and extended...or small and nuc...lear. But whatever their size or wherever they live, strong families give us the nurturance and strength we need in order to survive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. The...y are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the strong and healthy yeoman and husbands of the land, the self-sustaining class of inventive and industrious men, fear no co...mpetition or superiority. Come what will, their faculty cannot be spared.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In time the strong and stately turrets fall, In time the rose and silver lilies die,... In time the monarchs captive are, and thrall, In time the sea and rivers are made dry; The hardest flint in time doth melt asunder; Still living fame in time doth fade away; The mountains proud we see in time come under; And earth, for age, we see in time decay. The sun in time forgets for to retire From out the east where he was wont to rise; The basest thoughts we see in time aspire, And greedy minds in time do wealth despise. Thus all, sweet Fair, in time must have an end, Except thy beauty, virtues, and thy friend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come fr...om the ends of the earth!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »