Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.

RESISTANCE IS UNIVERSAL We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North—meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing.   We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others.   Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

Help us to never cast aside the whole relationship just because it has developed a nonworking part.

The study [of Revelation] instructs us not only about the storms to come, but how to endure and come through them with great victory.

A muscle becomes weak if it is not used. To become strong, a muscle must push against something.

Success stories may be great motivational material for sales seminars, but we are not always successful.

The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone.

You will never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

In later years, I confess that I do not envy the white boy as I once did. I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of race.