“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
Communication
November 16, 2017 by
“Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
Paulo Coelho
Teaching
November 15, 2017 by
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Anon
Happiness
November 14, 2017 by
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
Seneca
Character
November 13, 2017 by
“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Teaching
November 12, 2017 by
“What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”
Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello
Confidence
November 11, 2017 by
“There are so many more important things to worry about than how you’re perceived by strangers.”
Dennis Lehane
Happiness
November 9, 2017 by
“If you feel anxiety or depression, you are not in the present. You are either anxiously projecting the future or depressed and stuck in the past. The only thing you have any control over is the present moment; simple breathing exercises can make us calm and present instantly.”
Tobe Hanson, The Four Seasons Way of Life:: Ancient Wisdom for Healing and Personal Growth
Good to Great
November 8, 2017 by
“Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world–to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
Ayn Rand
“Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”
― Napoleon Hill