STOP AND THINK - The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. (Marcel Proust, 19th and 20th century French novelist and essayist) We enjoy the stories of the great world discoverers who traveled the globe to find new...
STOP AND THINK - How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us. (Confucius, 6th century BC Chinese philosopher) In spite of our efforts to hide our real feelings, it often is too easy for others to recognize how things really are....
STOP AND THINK- Do not go where the path may lead. Instead, go where there is no path and leave a trail. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th century American essayist) For many of us with a less adventurous spirit, it’s just too hard to make a new trail. We’d prefer to follow...
Have you ever watched a good sized fire burn? I mean a big, roaring, too hot to get close to bonfire? I lit one this evening. It was a perfect night for it. I decided to burn some wood that the city wouldn’t pick up along with some old bills and other things. I...
STOP AND THINK - It is easier to encourage your students to be learners when you are a learner yourself. (Jillian Jones, 1st year teacher in an international school) Jones may not have had much experience, but she has learned a very important lesson about teaching....
STOP AND THINK - There was a definite process by which one made people into friends; it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time. (Rebecca West, 20th century English author) In our busy 21st century life, who has time to talk with someone for...
STOP AND THINK - - Judgmentalism assumes that you have the right to change someone else. Well, you don’t. You only have the right to choose how you will change and behave. (Vince Poscente, motivational speaker) Are you often inclined to judge others for their words...
STOP AND THINK - Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it. (Elaine St. James, author of Simplify Your Life) Life has become extremely complicated for many American families. Parents have their work (often more than one job), social lives, and...
STOP AND THINK - Want to experience [change]? Start serving others. It's guaranteed to break the grip of self-centeredness in your life. (Mike Lee, American pastor) Lee actually used the word “transformation,” which speaks more directly to the nature of the change....
STOP AND THINK - If we fail, then fail at the right stuff—fail trying, not watching. (Bob Goff, best-selling author) Like it or not, failure is a part of life. If you’ve never failed, it may mean you haven’t tried. We must not let failures or the fear of them keep us...
STOP AND THINK - Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. (Denis Piderot, 18th century French philosopher, art critic, and writer) Some have thought that we live in a generation and culture of mediocrity. That’s probably not entirely true....
STOP AND THINK - Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. (Daniel Patrick Moynihan, late United States Senator) This significant statement should be remembered in times of heated discussion and debate. We all have opinions that we arrive at...