STOP AND THINK - If an egg is broken from an outside source, life ends. If broken from an inside source, life begins. (Jim Kwik, learning expert) Kwik also says, “Great things always begin from the inside.” Another wrote, “Real change can come only from within.”...
STOP AND THINK - Be how you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. (Dr. Seuss, children’s writer and cartoonist) So many people try to be careful about what they do and say because they fear what others might...
STOP AND THINK - After the age of 80, everything reminds us of something else. (Lowell Thomas, journalist and newscaster) Any octogenarian can testify to the truth of Thomas’ comment. Some of those “reminders” are pleasant and enjoyable; others recall disappointments...
STOP AND THINK - It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. (Benjamin Elijah Mays, sociologist and educator) He also wrote, “The tragedy [in life] lies in having no goal to reach.” In fact, he says, “Low aim is sin.” Some...
STOP AND THINK - Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted by a lie. (Khaled Hosseini, Afghan-born American novelist and physician) As someone else has said, “The truth hurts only when it applies.” But still, the truth can hurt. And sometimes we have to face up...
STOP AND THINK - What matters is whether you are being faithful, not whether you are being successful. (James Emery White, pastor, professor, and author) Success may mean a lot of different things to different people—the accumulation of wealth, the adulation of...
STOP AND THINK - Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tend to obscurity. (Blaise Pascal, 17th century French scientist, writer, and philosopher) To paraphrase Pascal, “If you want people to remember what you say, don’t talk too long and be sure to hit...
STOP AND THINK - Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up. (Tryon Edwards, 19th century theologian and publisher) Have you ever seen a young adult who thinks and acts like a much older person? You...
STOP AND THINK - Never fear dying … Fear living—that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo. (C. H. Spurgeon, 19th century British “Prince of Preachers”) We fear death because we don’t know what it will “feel” like and we’re...
STOP AND THINK - Stop judging others and offer grace instead. Remember, judgment is simply seeing yourself as superior. Stop it in its tracks. (Gail Rodgers, freelance writer) It’s seems to be part of our human nature to be critical. We criticize someone who talks,...
STOP AND THINK - Does something seem terribly important to you today? Extremely, vitally serious? Almost to the point of distraction? (Charles Swindoll, pastor and author) There are times, aren’t there, when we really feel pressured because that particular day has...
STOP AND THINK - It is not the facts which divide men but the interpretation of the facts. (Aristotle, 4th century BC Greek philosopher) Facts are universal—true everywhere and all the time. When men disagree about one thing or another—the subject of origins, for...