I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.

In order to be prepared to hope in what does not deceive, we must first lose hope in everything that deceives. —Georges Bernanos (in Reason for Being by Jacques Ellul)

Viktor Frankl, who spent time in one of Hitler's camps, said, "Despair is suffering without meaning.

Maybe it's just the accumulated stress and strain from a long season of steady struggle. Or maybe you aren't overwhelmed at all. More like underwhelmed—bored with the sameness and mundaneness of a life you thought would be filled with so much more adventure. The predictability, the pointlessness. Urgh. You so desperately want a change, or at least a little excitement along the way.

Chances are good that you once had a dream—a big, noble, beautiful dream—that you could envision coming true, but that dream was snatched away. An experience like that leaves you longing for a comeback.

When I want to really get to know someone, I ask three questions. People's answers to these give me great insight into someone's heart. The questions are: What do you dream about? What do you sing about? What do you cry about?

One of the most important things you can do as a leader is make sure you and your organization are delivering what you promised. The question I ask to make an assessment of this is "Did we exceed expectations?" This ensures my future success and that of my organization. The future is dim professionally for anyone who doesn't exceed the expectations of customers or clients.

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Desire means never quit.

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.