You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you’re sad, love what you've got and remember what you had. Always forgive but never forget, learn from your mistakes but never regret, people change, things go wrong, just remember, life goes on.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Give me my Romeo. And when I shall die....
Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine...
That all the world will be in love with night ...And pay no worship to the garish sun.... ~Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there. I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain. I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in the morning's hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there. I did not die.
Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of happiness without needing nice things to happen on the outside. Rather, you find happiness by being who you really are. This isn't mystical. Young children are happy being who they are. The trick is to regain such a state when you are grown and have seen the light and dark sides of life.
Entire water of the sea can't sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship.Similarly, negativity of the world can't put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.
Two wrongs don’t make a right’. But two wrongs can never make a right. Because two wrongs can never equal each other. For the truly wronged, real satisfaction can only be found in one of two places: Absolute forgiveness, or mortal vindication.