"Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?""

“If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.”

“It is one thing to read the Scriptures and affirm their truth. But until you are in the trenches of trial, until you are faced with life circumstances that test your faith, until you are pressed to the absolute limit of your physical and emotional capacity, until you face the unrelenting stress of ongoing trauma, you never really know how you'll respond to what you may have embraced so easily during a comfortable Bible study.”

“I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.”

“The president began this program by executive order. He should immediately end it by executive order. For over a year now, he has said the program is illegal, and yet he does nothing.”

“Sophie glanced from me to Sabine, then back, scowling. "I'm not scared of her. I can handle myself." "Yeah, and hissing kittens think they're badass too," Sabine said.”

“Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.”

Source : "6 skills of self-made millionaires everyone should use" by Adam Toren, www.businessinsider.com. March 10, 2016.

“I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are greed, hatred and delusion. Well, delusion is not much mentioned in the Christian tradition. In the West, we have underplayed the idea that our moral and spiritual troubles have to do with a lack of clarity or insight because original sin has dominated so much of our thinking. We tend to think that our troubles are caused by insufficient will power.”

“I'm definitely not comfortable in a Speedo! That's as uncomfortable as it gets!”

Source : "10 Fun Icebreakers With Magic Mike and Reckless Stud Adam Rodriguez (FYI: Shirtless Pics Included)" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. August 14, 2014.