Lighthouses Just Shine
“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.” – Anne Lamott
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Thermostats and Thermometers
“Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature in its environment, adjusting to the situation. But, a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment.” – Nido Qubein
Continue reading →The Life That is Waiting for Us
“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
Continue reading →Bedrock of Truth
“It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.” – May Sarton
Continue reading →What You Have to Offer
“Imagine what it would be like to live in a world where you are more concerned about what you have to offer than what you have to hide.”
Continue reading →Unhappiness Part 1
“Unhappiness comes from comparison.” – Greg Taunt
Continue reading →Be Yourself
“In an age where there is much talk about “being yourself,” I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.” – Thomas Merton
Continue reading →We Must Sail
“We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Continue reading →The Greatest Gift Anyone Could Give
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me.” – Jim Valvano
Continue reading →Computers and the ‘Older’ Generation
A computer was something on TV, From a science-fiction show of note, A window was something you hated to clean, And ram was the cousin of a goat. Meg was the name of my girlfriend, And gig was a job … Continue reading →