STOP AND THINK – In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature’s way of forcing change. (Susan Taylor, editor, writer, and journalist) Legend has it that the Chinese word for crisis is made up of two words meaning “danger” and...
STOP AND THINK – Do what you can, where you’re at, with what you have. (John Wooden, renowned basketball coach) Do the tasks before you seem insurmountable? We look at their immensity or difficulty, and we think we can’t do much. Wooden...
STOP AND THINK – Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. (Winston Churchill, World War II British prime minister) When we’ve accomplished something significant, we may think that our success...
STOP AND THINK – I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. (Maya Angelou, African-American poet) We should be careful about what we say to...
One of the biggest questions people who don’t believe Jesus ask is, “If God is God and all powerful, why doesn’t He just end all the suffering?” This has become the cry of those who want to argue the existence of God. It’s the reasoning people...
STOP AND THINK – Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. (Wayne Dyer, self-help author and motivational speaker) Dyer is encouraging people to...
STOP AND THINK – The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one. (Marianne Williamson, teacher, author, and lecturer) Williamson is emphasizing the importance of each individual. She says further, “Personal...
STOP AND THINK – Change is the end result of all true learning. (Leo Buscaglia, author and motivational speaker) We live in an age of learning. Resources are readily available to study almost any subject. But, as the Bible says, we may be...
STOP AND THINK – Leaders don’t force people to follow; they invite them on a journey. (Charles S. Lauer, healthcare publisher) A leader who forces people to follow is a dictator or tyrant, someone who doesn’t give his “followers” a voice in...
STOP AND THINK – All cases are unique, and very similar to others. (T. S. Eliot, playwright and poet) Sounds like a contradiction in terms, doesn’t it? It’s true that virtually every circumstance in life is unique to your own personal...
STOP AND THINK – Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. (Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the independence movement in India) Gandhi was thinking of freedom in a political context, but the principle holds true in a more...
STOP AND THINK – Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. (Helen Keller, American author and lecturer) To consider such words from a woman, who could not see or hear, is a challenge to...
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