Our Double Life

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us.
Steven Pressfield

Cheerful evil

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal

Get to know yourself

Make things = know thyself.

The Lying Habit

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Listening is not

Listening is not thinking about what you are going to say when the other person has stopped talking.

H Norman Wright

Replace the drama

Life is too short for drama and petty things. So KISS slowly; LAUGH insanely; LOVE truly; And FORGIVE quickly!

a Matter of Moments

Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

The measure of life

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breathe away.

The storms and the dance

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.

The sun and the shadows

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.

Clint on fear

It’s what people know about themselves inside is what makes them afraid.
– Clint Eastwood in “High Plains Drifter”

It's easy

It's easy to give time to the harmless and inconsequential over the significant and enduring.

Old Friends

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What moves us

It is not strength but desire that moves us.