B. D. Schiers

Many unkind people have done kind things. Doing acts of kindness is not the same as occupying kindness, of being kindness.

If you want to change the world, start with the next person who comes to you in need.

Insight emerges out of silence.

What will your children be teaching your grandchildren?

Scream in silence. Dance in stillness.

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.

Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.

Leaders inspire. They aren’t assigned leadership. They command it.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what’s going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

Grief never mended no broken bones.

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Progress is a new season and the rule of progress is everything in its season.