True Heroism
“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost.” – Arthur Ashe
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What Can I Get Out of It?
“While you are trying to figure out how to get out of it, stop and ask, ‘What can i get out of it?’”
Continue reading →Doubly Blessed When We Receive
“Gratitude makes us feel bursting with delight, just to remember the gifts we have received. Thus we are doubly blessed when we receive something: for the gift itself and later, in recall, for the miracle of having been given it.” … Continue reading →
Perseverance Is
“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” – Dr. J. Andrews
Continue reading →Dreams
“At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.” – Christopher Reeve
Continue reading →Growing Ideas
“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind then in the one where they sprang up.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Continue reading →Success and Failure Are Companions
“Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions – the hero and the sidekick.” – Lawrence Shames
Continue reading →Purposeful, Firm, and Powerful Action
“There is a time to act, and a time to wait, to listen, to observe. Then understanding and clarity can grow. From understanding, action arises that is purposeful, firm, and powerful.” – Charles Eisenstein
Continue reading →What You Have
“Happiness is to appreciate what you have; unhappiness is to dwell on what you don’t have.” – Rabbi Shimon Ben Zoma
Continue reading →The Garment of Destiny
“We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
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