There is no kind of ultimate goal to do something twice as good as someone else. It is just to do the job as best you can. (Chuck Yeager, first pilot to break the sound barrier) It’s good to set goals, but they should be reasonable. What’s the...
This year has being extremely wet. During the heaviest rains, the water rushes down from the ridges with a lot of force. Where there used to be a trickle there is now a raging stream. The water rushes downhill seeking the lowest point. Our songs...
When I look at my life in its full sweep, what I realize is that the only things that give me sustained joy . . . have to do with the people I’ve helped. (Charles Colson, late founder of Prison Fellowship) Chuck Colson was a man of intelligence...
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. (William James, American philosopher and psychologist) As children, we didn’t understand that there is more to life than the now. We didn’t think beyond what we might be...
Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody. (Robby Novak, child actor) A simple, childlike expression of a valuable concept: encouragement. How do our friends feel after they’ve been with us? Are they let down or uplifted? Have we given...
Don’t survive your life. LIVE IT! (Oliver Edwards, Canadian pastor) Life may sometimes be very difficult. Sometimes we ask, “Can I ever get through this day?” The ordinary burdens of everyday life are difficult enough at times, and when...
You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. (Michael Pritchard, actor and youth counselor) Someone else has said, “If you laugh a lot, when you get older, your wrinkles will be in the right places.”...
I am not afraid of failing, I am afraid of being successful at something that doesn’t matter. (Quoted by Morris M. Michalski, coach and basketball specialist) Coach “Mo,” as he was known, quoted an athlete with a unique perspective on success...
Getting it wrong: Signs to students at DePauw University reading, “YOU DESERVE HELL!” Getting it right: “Judge not, lest you be judged.” Buzzfeed.com reported that a group of young Christians representing The Campus Ministry USA arrived at DePauw...
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. (Orison Sweet Marden, 19th-20th century inspirational author) Marden continued, “It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.”...
It is harder to win back the friendship of an offended brother than to capture a fortified city. His anger shuts you out like an iron bar. (The Living Bible) Remember when you were a child and you had a falling out with your best buddy? It hurt...
On our walks, we pass through a hay field to get to the woods. Part of the process of growing is adding nutrients to the soil. It is important that we watch our steps and pay attention to where the manure spreader has gone before us. Watching...
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