The only permanent part of failure is its existence in the past. If it lives anywhere else, it’s only because you invited it to stay. C.L. Harmon
Purpose is that tiny component hidden in the vast expanse of everything providing our reason for existence. And yet it is often lost to us because we focus on the everything. But without purpose, everything truly means nothing. But if we seek it above all else, we learn that everything is actually the tiny component hidden within the vast expanse of purpose. C.L. Harmon
I often wonder how the world would be if you had given someone an opportunity.Sincerely,Someone
Unique perspectives come from unique circumstances. Remember this the next time someone offers a suggestion or idea. It could be coming from a place you will never have access to. And that means your opinion of its value should come from another unique perspective, that of open-mindedness.C.L. Harmon
Choose wisely those with whom you stand. Choose someone at the top who is corrupt and they may drag you down with them when they fall. Choose someone from the bottom who is humble and they may help you up to the next level. Our choices don’t just define us, they divulge the character of those we choose.C.L. Harmon
People remember those who treat them with respect and dignity but cannot forget those who treat them with disrespect and unfairness If you do not understand the distinction between the two, rest assured you will not be remembered, but you will never be forgotten.C.L. Harmon
If the young knew the value of youth, they would never spend it in hopes of keeping it. If the old were offered it again, they would spend every second with fervor before it was gone. Knowledge can often keep us from risks. Wisdom tells us if it was worth it. Faith, however, is what leads us to the experiences worth spending everything we have at the time so its cost will provide a lifetime of gain.C.L. Harmon
There is a time to be a victim of selfishness so we can learn why we must share. There is a time to be lied to so we come to understand the importance of truth. And there is a time to be deceived so we can learn the value of trust. Because we are aware of evil, we are forced to acknowledge it. Understanding what it does and then choosing to seek its opposite is how we defeat it.C.L. Harmon
Perception is a tool allowing us to see the present and the past with the same eyes. So is judgement. Perception can allow us to see a different future than our past. Judgement only allows for us to see our past continue into the future.C.L. Harmon
If you place little value on your integrity, the greatest value you will ever have is the amount for which you sell your morals and the little worth others place on you when they need someone with integrity.C.L. Harmon
People do not defeat us. They convince us to defeat ourselves by our choice to place more value on what they say and believe about us than what we should know and understand about ourselves.C.L. Harmon
If judgement lay in your hands, lay it upon the ground. If contempt breeds within your heart, let tolerance take over your mind. If your actions instill fear, surrender them to those who wage peace. If your way is destruction, your grave is prepared in the ruins you create. If you trade the act of living for gain, death will collect the profits. Choose wisely as choices don’t define us, they become us. C.L. Harmon
It’s okay to be a tortured soul, a misguided or unfortunate soul. Even a lost soul. It’s only if we become a defeated soul that we can no longer find peace, find our way change our fortunes and be found. C.L. Harmon
Failing to achieve our desires was simply failure to believe they existed for us. Nothing more, nothing less. Belief in our desires makes them possible; it’s the breath giving them life. Continued faith is the oxygen which brings them to fruition. C.L. Harmon
If you could purchase peace, what would pay for it? If you could trade for joy, what would you give up to have it? What would you sell to have security? That which has value has it only because there was a sacrifice to obtain it or to keep it. When you know what you are willing to sacrifice, only then will know the value of what you seek. C.L. Harmon
Nothing we earn, achieve, or acquire will remember us after we pass. All of it will fade away or become the property of another. The memories and words we leave with others will be the traces that attach to their souls and the only personal part of us we leave behind. Today exists so we may leave a part of ourselves for others’ tomorrow. C.L. Harmon
If you take away someone’s desire to laugh, you remove a small part of their joy. If you take away their need to cry, you remove a bit of their passion. If you take away their desire to feel, you steal a bit of their humanity. If you attack their confidence, you kill a little of their resolve. If you crush part their dream, you raze their hope. And if you take a little of all them from others, you take away their reasons to live. C.L. Harmon
One of the most courageous actions in life is to continue embracing faith, hope, and positivity solely for the sake of others. This is especially true when we feel these have failed us. What we see in others and what they see in us is sometimes the only strength to be found when misery abounds and all courage to continue has been lost. C.L. Harmon
If I teach you to think like me, the world will not change. If I teach you to think about me, I can influence you to change the world. But if I teach you to think for yourself, then I have given you the power to change how the world thinks. C.L. Harmon