American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.
BILL VAUGHANThe work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
-
-
The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don’t be upset at the results.
BILL VAUGHAN -
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.
BILL VAUGHAN -
Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
BILL VAUGHAN -
The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
BILL VAUGHAN -
It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.
BILL VAUGHAN -
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
BILL VAUGHAN -
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?
BILL VAUGHAN -
What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
BILL VAUGHAN -
The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
BILL VAUGHAN -
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
BILL VAUGHAN -
The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
BILL VAUGHAN -
Goal achievement is hero’s work.
BILL VAUGHAN -
One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
BILL VAUGHAN -
Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
BILL VAUGHAN -
Live constructively and live optimistically.
BILL VAUGHAN