A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow. – Friedrich Nietzsche Looking at this post in my Drafts folder I wasn’t sure if I was going to actually write the post or not. It is,…
Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of. – Henry Wheeler Shaw Whether it’s debt, or a relationship that isn’t working out, or a tool that you paid good money for (that didn’t live up to its original promise… ), once we’re in something, we’re often…
Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love. – Buddha When you enter a dark room what do you do? Do you try to turn the darkness down so that you may see? Of course not. You turn on a light. And so it goes in life. In every instance where love, or good…
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I think so many people get caught up the enormity of the challenges they face: the challenges in their personal…
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves. – Mahatma Gandhi So many people despair of what is happening in/with/to the World/Earth. And with good reason. There is cause to…
Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy Speaks for itself . . . .
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry You may be wondering how “leadership” and (Saint-Exupery’s thoughts on) “love” are related, but they are. Sort of. Let’s put aside the “gazing at each other” part of the quote and focus on…