“Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.”
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
“Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people, that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? “I will speak ill of no man,” he said, “ … and speak all the good I know of everybody.”
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
“A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still”
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
Is of the same opinion still”
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
“Nobody in the heavens above or on the earth beneath or in the waters under the earth will ever object to your saying: ‘I may be wrong. Let’s examine the facts.”
― How to Win Friends and Influence People
― How to Win Friends and Influence People
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