Wants vs. Needs [It’s] so easy for our wants to become needs, but when we live like that, we spend money we don't even have yet. (Mike Lee, minister) The marketing industry has discovered the way to increase sales of just about any product we can imagine. All they...
Friends I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time. . . (Steve Pavlina, motivational speaker) Pavlina continues: “. . . where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have.” When we were kids, friendships...
The Future Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. (Wayne Dyer, self-help, author) Dyer continues, “The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.” That’s good advice, but there is a sense in which life is like a...
Significance Success is not the same as significance. (Chris Suitt, blog writer) Winning a checkers game or completing a crossword puzzle might be considered a success by some. Winning a gold medal in the Olympics would get a lot more attention. But isn’t it just as...
Confidence Believe you can and you’re halfway there. (Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President) Successful people just exude self-confidence. They never seem to doubt that they can accomplish what they set out to do. Perhaps that’s why others will eagerly join with...
Revenge An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. (Mahatma Gandhi, 19th-20th century Indian nationalist) When Jesus spoke of an eye for an eye, he was setting a limit on retaliation. It was the legal limit. You can’t ask for more than you’ve lost. As...
Yesterday or Tomorrow Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. (Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th president of the United States) Sometimes we might wish we could go back and do yesterday over again. We’d like to enjoy those moments once again. Or...
Time All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. (J. R. R. Tolkien, late British writer) Decision, Decisions. We all make dozens of them every day. What to wear and eat? Which letters to answer? The movies or TV? But really, there are only a...
Health A healthy outside starts from the inside. (Robert Urich, late American actor) It’s a simple truth, but many of us ignore its importance. Obesity, alcoholism, drug addictions, and other physical maladies are clear demonstrations of its truth. Far more important,...
Ideas and Words Ideas shape the course of history. (Thomas Jefferson) More recently, actor Robins Williams confirmed Jefferson’s thought: “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” The ideas that Jefferson put into words in the Declaration...
Be Strong Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient. (Steve Maraboli, behavioral scientist) We may wish that things would be easier as we grow older and that our mistakes would be more easily corrected. But experience has shown it’s...
Perspective II No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. (Ellen Glasgow, American author) The wise Solomon wrote, “Nothing under the sun is truly new” (Ecclesiastes 1:9). Young people may think...