Get On A Bus!

While reading this afternoon I came across something interesting: in addition to the Golden Rule (which everyone knows about) and the Platinum Rule (which I learned about in the last couple years, and few know about), there’s the Silver Rule (which hardly anyone knows about, and I didn’t until about 3:00 PM). As we know,…

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. – Josh Billings Life is perfect. “Perfect” in the sense that everything happens because of the choices each of us makes, and the combination and accumulation of all of our choices. Things are perfect because they cannot be any other way….

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’ – Mary Anne Radmacher Sure, Hollywood wants us to believe that courage is primarily the domain of the well-muscled action hero, but real courage is more like the everyday person who makes a…

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. – David Viscott No commentary from me here. Just offering you this thought.

I read and listen to a lot of self/personal development stuff. But all that reading and listening doesn’t amount to a hill-of-beans (speaking of which, has anyone ever seen an actual “hill-of-beans” and is one all that desirable?) without application. Information without application is interesting and sometimes entertaining, but it’s never transformative – it doesn’t change anyone…

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. – Gandhi Will, and its more common usage, willpower, is much talked about – and much mis-understood. People think will-power is something they need to get from outside themselves, and once they have it, they need to strengthen it and maintain it. Our…