“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Leonardo DaVinci
The Most Wanted Posters
A kindergarten class went to the police station on a field trip. The police officer took the students past a wall with the Ten Most Wanted posters on display.
He expressed to the class that the police needed the help of the public to catch these fugitives. One student raised her hand and asked, “Are those the real pictures of the bad guys?”
“Yes, these are the bad guys,” confirmed the officer.
“Well,” pursued the kindergartener, “why didn’t you hold on to them when you took their picture?”
Little Decisions, Infinite Importance
“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible. – C. S. Lewis