Life Worth Living The unexamined life is not worth living. (Socrates, 4th century BC Greek philosopher) Why do you do what you do? Do you ever stop to think about your reasons for choosing to do, say, and act, as you do? If you’re just “going through unexamined...
The Measure of a Man The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Samuel Johnson, 18th century English writer) “Quid pro Quo” is a phrase we hear sometimes when politicians are looking for reasons to discredit the testimony or...
Knowledge The value of knowledge is in the use of it. (William Barton, late clergyman and author) It is said that on average human knowledge is doubling every 13 months, and IBM predicts that the build out of the “internet of things” will lead to the doubling...
Heart When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that’s what’s inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside. (Wayne Dyer, self-help author) We all run into those times when we feel “squeezed.” Whether it is family problems,...
Words A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return (Jewish proverb) We need to be reminded of this truth periodically. It’s so easy to let our words fly freely either before we think or without thinking at all. The...
Behavior Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. (Thomas Jefferson, US Founding Father) There are probably times when we would rather not been seen by others. Some things we’d like to keep secret. But, whether in private or public, it would be...
Your Mind No one is more influential in your life than you are, because no one talks to you more than you do. (Paul Tripp, author) Do you ever talk to yourself? Well, maybe not out loud, but we are constantly thinking and words race through our minds.. In spite of all...
Work Hard If you don’t suffer the pain of hard work now, you will suffer the pain of regret later. (Abdul Khadar J, Indian actor) It doesn’t take long for us to discover that life is not always easy. The goals we want to achieve require concentrated effort and, often,...
Hard Work There is nothing to writing. Just sit down at your typewriter and bleed. (Earnest Hemingway, 20th century American author) Does everybody want to be a writer? Whether it’s blogs, e-books, or printed material, lots of people seem to think they have something...
Work To love what you do and feel that it matters...how could anything be more fun? (Katharine Graham, late newspaper publisher) In spite of the headaches of publishing a big city newspaper, Graham seemed to love her work and became a popular public figure. There are...
Labor Day It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage that we move on to better things. (Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president) Today we celebrate labor, and as Roosevelt suggests, it is an essential element in achieving “better...
Learn and Grow By their mid-thirties, most people have stopped acquiring new skills and new attitudes in any aspect of their lives. (John Gardner, author) Pastor-author Charles Swindoll describes such people, “You're fast becoming addicted to the narcotic of...