“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.” – Mary Tyler Moore
Keep Swimming
Two mice fell into a deep cream bowl. One was an optimistic soul.
But the other took the gloomy view. “We’ll drown,” he lamented without much ado.
With a last despairing cry, he flung up his legs and said “Goodbye.”
The other mouse said with a steadfast grin, “I can’t get out but I won’t give in.
I’ll just swim around until my strength is spent, then I’ll die all the more content.”
Bravely he swam to work his scheme, and his struggles began to churn the cream.
The more he swam, his legs a flutter, the more the cream turned into butter.
On top of the butter at last he stopped, and out of the bowl he happily hopped.
What is the moral? It’s easily found. If you can’t hop out, keep swimming around!
To Improve is to Change
Only Two Kinds of People in the End
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.” – C. S. Lewis
Allow Yourself to Make Mistakes
Extraordinary Afflictions
The True Measure of Our Thanksgiving
Two Wolves
An old man told his grandson, “My son, there is an endless battle that goes on inside all of us. It is between two wolves.
One wolf is bad – he is anger, envy, regret, greed, arrogance, resentment, lies, superiority and ego.
The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.”
The grandson thought about it and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”
The old man answered, “The one you feed.”