“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. be patient. The storm will pass. the spring will come.” – Robert H. Schuller “You’ve done it before and you can do it now.Continue reading “To Risk or not to Risk”
Category Archives: Purpose
Late Bloomers
“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” – Betty Friedan “No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.” – Katharine Graham “The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.” – Doug Larson “The great awarenessContinue reading “Late Bloomers”
Focused Attention
“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.” – George Eliot “The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.” – Elbert Hubbard “The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.” – Arnold J. Toynbee Last week I wrote about serendipity and howContinue reading “Focused Attention”
Following My Own Star
“The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.” – Benjamin E. Mays “Our deepest fear is not that we areContinue reading “Following My Own Star”
Truth and Perception
“The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem.” –Captain Jack Sparrow “Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.” –Dennis Wholey “Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it’sContinue reading “Truth and Perception”