180 Quotes by Charles F Glassman

In the long run, our comfort zone can become our uncomfortable zone.

Abuse and addiction arise when self-destruction becomes one’s dysfunctional comfort zone. The sayings go that life begins and the magic happens outside your comfort zone. These sayings were never truer than in these cases.

Whenever I find myself doubting whether I can face another battle, I simply remember the doubts I had in the past and how difficult the future battles seemed to be. Then, I look to where I am now and see everything I’ve faced, all the battles I won. All of them had a common element: I overcame fear rather than it overcoming me. Self-doubt, yeah, maybe, but I refuse to let that stop me. How about you do the same?

For many, this Easter day symbolizes rebirth. Is it only one day a year, though? I don’t think so. Each day we can choose in what we will place our faith.

Nobody’s perfect. We mess up. We do wrong stuff. We say wrong stuff. We fall. We get up. We learn. We grow. We move one. We live. We’re human.

ALL humans—you and me—are made up of two components: an animal nature and a divine nature. We don’t say the lion is bad when it kills the gazelle to eat it. That’s because it is an animal. Bad things happen, though, when we humans act in accordance with our animal nature. Not only does it block access to the divine, it causes us to devour others.

Rather than signs of weakness, humility and vulnerability can often be signals of great strength and confidence.

For those who have been affected physically, emotionally, and financially by this terrible pandemic, I pray that your spirit stays strong enough, so you may continue to see a dim light peaking through the darkness that will soon shine brightly again.

All success is the stringing together of single steps that become a journey and ultimately lead to a destination. Often that destination is not what you thought it would be in the beginning. But if your steps are taken with purpose, passion, perseverance, and good intentions, then you can be assured that you will arrive in a meaningful place.