Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding. - Harold Evans True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. - Socrates For every complex... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, August 12, 2024
Sunday, August 11, 2024
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. - Robert Foster Bennett The freedom we are... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, August 10, 2024
Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another. - Colossians 3:12 The only way you can serve God is by serving other people. - Rick Warren Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely, and the unwanted according to the... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, August 9, 2024
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. - Theodore H. White The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. - Rollo May Life is a sum of all your choices. -... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, August 8, 2024
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. - Margaret Mead Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment, and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, August 4, 2024
I don't need other people to have an open mind. The crucial question is, "Is my mind open?" - Byron Katie Every really new idea looks crazy at first. - Alfred North Whitehead Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. - James Dewar The human mind, once stretched by a new idea,... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, August 3, 2024
Thank you, God, for this good life, and forgive us if we do not love it enough. - Garrison Keillor It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames and that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. - Charles Kuralt.... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, August 2, 2024
The world in which we live and work is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. - Earl Nightingale Everyone is a mirror image of yourself - your own thinking coming back at you. - Byron Katie A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, August 1, 2024
We carry our worst enemies within us. - Charles Spurgeon It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. - The Buddha Part of the happiness of life consists not of fighting battles but of avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. - Norman Vincent Peale Life... Sign in to see full entry.