Always remember, the closer you get to realizing a dream or breakthrough, the greater the resistance becomes. Don't stop! It's just a test. (Jon Gordon, leadership author and speaker) After things have gone well in your pursuit of a particular goal or achievement, do...
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. (Martin Luther King, Jr, 20th century civil rights leader) The violence and acrimony that we see demonstrated on television in the evening news...
I’m not funny. What I am is brave. (Lucille Ball, TV comedian) “I Love Lucy” was a hilarious, slapstick, TV situation comedy that played many years. Ball says she was “not funny,” which will be a surprise to most of her viewers. Her bravery, however, might be a worthy...
Don't try to control the situation. Focus on controlling yourself. (Tim Kight, leadership writer) Some people seem to be control-freaks. They simply must be in charge. In facing difficult circumstances, most of us will do better if we concentrate on disciplining...
When you hold resentment, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. (Catherine Ponder, Religious leader and author) When we are greatly offended by someone, we tend to react strongly, not only to the offense, but to...
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” (Maya Angelou, American poet) When we give freely at times other than Christmas, birthdays, and anniversaries, there is a greater sense of spontaneity and generosity. It’s a joy we should practice...
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts. (Henry Ward Beecher, 19th century Congregationalist clergyman) John Milton, another English writer...
Common sense can be learned from experience or the teaching we receive from those we trust. (Cindy Hess Kasper, author) We sometimes lament the apparent lack of common sense in society today. The more “far out” behaviors become, the more widely they seem to be...
He (God) is the still point of the turning world. (T. S. Eliot, 20th century British poet) The physical world is constantly in motion—the planets, the stars, even the earth on which we walk. The universe is in a fixed, pre-determined cycle of movement that is beyond...
I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees. (Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet-diplomat and Nobel Prize author) Spring arrives in the Northern Hemisphere today. After a long, hard winter, it is welcome. Perhaps Neruda was referring to the Japanese Cherry...
The Vision of the ideal guards monotony of work from becoming monotony of life. (Brooke Westcott, Anglican Bishop and theologian) You may find your work boring because of its repetitiveness—watching products flow through an assembly line and adding your little part...
"When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” (from Alice in Wonderland) Humpty Dumpty sounds like a 21st century person. Dictionary definitions don’t seem to mean much anymore. We...