H.W. Charles Quotes

Habits are familiar and comfortable, putting our reactions on autopilot and often leading us, instead, to great discomfort.

Do you want to change?" "It's the only evidence of life.

When I remove the layers that say I can’t, I discover a burning ember that says I should, I can, and I will.

Every achievement worth remembering is stained with the blood of diligence and scarred by the wounds of disappointment

Happiness does not result from pleasure, but rather, from reaching one's goals.

[M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.

Passion does not translate easily into good income.

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day.

The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010.

The voice of Jacob will do a little good if the hands be the hands of Essau.

The author says the pastor who does not pray is a "mere official" who gets into his office by the necessity of the bread it provides.

Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship.

The unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing that they inhabited a fallen world, albeit one filled with God's grace.

The idyll ended, as idylls must.

Thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter?

Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins, that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!

Yup! I'll live stupid! Because I know what I do, and what we as a species do will one day come together and make a difference. We matter!

...I am better Thoughtful Prince than King. Potential holds appeal since in its castle wallsOne is protected from the awful shameOf failure.

It's a pity. I don't know who he is to you... But you are disgusting. To claim you fight for his honor, when all you do is bring shame to his name.

Desire abides. It is all people have that stands proof against time. Everything else rots.

The flame of urgent coupling burned hottest against the woman, no matter how romantic and high and heartsick the anguish of the man might be pitched in retrospect.

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow - James Matthew Barrie

The onslaught of scruples is a problem well attested in the spiritual life, especially among the young, where religious observances must be done perfectly to achieve a certain result.

Where you been, girl?” Harvey answered. “I’ve been sendin’ you twits for the last hour.

Mystery of love is like digging water: everything closes. (Mystère de l'amour est comme - Creuser l'eau : tout se referme)

Violet Lynn Parker, you’d better spill or I’ll start bellowing ‘Happy Birthday’ to you in my Bobcat Goldthwait voice.

I’m not ‘stubborn.’”“Oh, really?”Lifting my chin, I said, “I’m determined.” (Violet to Doc)

I had a feeling that Harvey wore his shotgun around the house like a pair of holey underwear.

All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.

It takes a rare person to care the same or more about you than themselves. So, until you find that person, please look after yourself.

We hurt ourselves much more than anyone can hurt us just by believing the stupid thoughts we get sometimes.

True self-confidence never needs to degrade the confidence of others in order to grow and survive. If it does, it’s not confidence at all…it’s ego.

True self-confidence never needs to degrade the confidence of others in order to grow. If it does, it’s not confidence at all…it’s ego.

Before searching for happiness in others, we must first find it in ourselves.

A sure way to go broke is to spend your outer riches before you have saved enough of your inner ones.

As soon as you see the need to change your partner to save the relationship, it is then time to end it.

As you see the need to change your partner to save the relationship, it is then time to end it.

If your comfort zone is misery, it's time to get uncomfortable.

Fear and anxiety many times indicates that we are moving in a positive direction, out of the safe confines of our comfort zone, and in the direction of our true purpose.

Anxiety, and the physical symptoms it causes, is merely fog along the path of independence and discovery.

If you cant beat 'em cooperate 'em to death!

Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Opening the door to self-respect is a key of happiness.

There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in God. There is no physician among the creatures, but the Creator is Jehovah-rophi.

We are going home (we are Home, already and always). Home on this earth is being all levels of our awareness or consciousness in our own unique fashion. (138)

You are a curse in my life!

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.

In rural and struggling Lexington, Virginia, Lee's new postwar home, one writer joked darkly dollars were so scarce that they had to be introduced to one another when they met on Main Street.

I would love God even if he damned me, because he was so gracious to others.