STOP AND THINK - It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th century American essayist and poet) Learning to think of others and their needs and desires...
STOP AND THINK - Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. (Albert Schweitzer, 19th-20th century German/French medical missionary) The Bible teaches that a gentle answer...
STOP AND THINK - Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 20th century German Lutheran pastor and anti-Nazi activist) Ideas are important. As Robin Williams once said, “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change...
STOP AND THINK - If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path. (Mary Webb, 19th-20th century English romantic novelist and poet) How often do we pass by someone in need, because we don’t want to go out of our way? Our time is important; our task is...
STOP AND THINK - Funny how I judge others by their actions but want them to judge me by my intentions. Maybe not so funny. (Mike Lee, American pastor) Isn’t that the truth? We are likely to judge another person solely by what we see him do without giving much thought...
STOP AND THINK - It’s almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside. (Source unknown) Is that really true? Try it the next time you see someone who seems to be discouraged and unsmiling. See if you can make him or her smile and then...
STOP AND THINK - Boys take, Men give. Boys create problems, Men solve problems, Boys complain, Men figure it out. Boys pout, Men endure. (John Bryson, business executive, former US Secretary of Commerce) Bryson is speaking about maturity, isn’t he? And, his comments...
STOP AND THINK - Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain. (Vivien Greene, author, designer, and speaker) Everyone encounters storms in life. Difficulties and trials are inevitable. Since you can’t avoid them, what...
STOP AND THINK - Appreciation can make a day—even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. (Margaret Cousins, 20th century Irish-Indian educationist) “Thank you!” “You are appreciated.” Those are simple words, but when spoken or...
STOP AND THINK - There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. (Edith Wharton, 19th-20th century American Pulitzer Prize-winning author) In our highly technical age we’ve learned that our lives are no longer private. Everyone...
STOP AND THINK - What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. (Albert Pike, 19th century Confederate officer, attorney) You Can’t Take It with You was the popular 1937 Pulitzer Prize-winning...
STOP AND THINK - Treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. (Og Mandino, 20th century...