Additions

Most additions are a result of lack of connectedness and shame.

Paul Myer

The Habit of Excellence

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit.

Aristotle

If Only..

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

Dale Carnegie

Getting Acquinted

One of the greatest moments in anybody’s life happens every time he no longer tries to hide from himself but decides to get acquainted with who he really is.

Brain Scans & Personality

Physical differences in our brains indicate our personality type. That’s the finding of a study of brain scans by scientists at England’s University of Hull, Italy’s University of Parma and Washington University in St Louis. They say variations in the size of specific regions of the brain that appear to be linked with certain tendencies that have been a part of us since birth. The differences could explain why person grows up diligent and introspective while another is outgoing and impulsive.

The researches say the study suggests four personality types.

People with smaller amounts of tissue in the brain above the eye sockets (known as the orbito-frontal) had harm-avoidance personalities. They were more pessimist, shy and tended to find comfort in outside sources such as food or drugs.

Novelty seekers were more impulsive and were structurally bigger in the same area.

Reward-dependence personalities had smaller amounts of tissue in the fronto-striatal and limbic areas of the brain. These are more an addictive personalities.

And those labeled Persistence tended to be industrious, hard-working and perfectionist.

The scientists say the differences support the concept that different children will learn in different ways. An approach tailored to the personality of the individual could make all the difference as to whether they are able to grasp the lesson.

Details of the study will be published in the Brain Research Bulletin.

Sweet Goodness

Make good more attractive than evil.

I Didn't Know That!

Many important things are done by folks who simply are too dumb to know they can’t be done.

Miracles

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

CS Lewis

Silence

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

Oliver Herford

Just Do It

The man who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it.

Chinese Proverb

Fooling Yourself

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Demosthenes