Without Courage
Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning. – Winston Churchill
Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s acting anyway.
Where are you afraid, where you could act anyway?
Which of your fears are just excuses?
As we learn in the Zen philosophy, when you learn to “let go” of problems instead of resisting with all your might, your life will begin to flow. – Richard Carlson Does a drop of water struggle to get to the ocean, or stay in a particular spot in a stream? Of course not. Water goes…
I recently read a post on Johnny B. Truant’s blog that really hit home. So much so that I wanted to do two things: share it with my readers and 2) think on and write about each piece of his post. The post is “20 Truths About Life No One Wants To Believe” and the first…
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky Most people don’t think they lie to themselves. Or, if they acknowledge that they don’t always tell themselves the truth, they certainly don’t call it lying. Yet, if you don’t keep promises, don’t do what you said you were going to…
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. – Epicurus I would tweak the above and say: instead of craving what you don’t have, set goals based on your best guess of what else you might want…
“It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” – Henry David Thoreau People say they’re so busy, so stressed, that they have too much to do and not enough time to do it, that there aren’t enough hours in the day, if I could just…
So, I watching the “The Good Wife” the other day and a lawyer who was leaving her current firm and highly-sought-after by many firms meets with Alicia (the main character) and asks: “What do you want?” Alicia’s reply (all the more honest as she had had a couple beers just recently) was: “I want to…