Your best speech

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Ambrose Bierce

The key to self-respect

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Refuting Socrates

Say rather, beloved Agathan, that you cannot refute the truth: for Socrates is easily refuted. Socrates

The sadness wall

Sadness is a wall between two gardens.
Kahlil Gibran

When you don't want to grow up

“Sorry, but that is the way I am.. I was like this in the beginning, am now, and ever shall be..” is a handy motto and delusion to hang around your neck when you don’t want to grow up.

You are going to die

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way that I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
Steve Jobs

Preaching with your life

Preach the gospel all the time; if necessary, use words
St. Francis of Assisi

The question

Pragmatism asks, “It is useful?” Christianity asks, “Is it right?”

The smallest things

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. Winnie The Pooh

Self-control Strategy

People with the best self-control aren’t the ones who use it all day long. They’re people who structure their lives so they conserve it.
John Tierney

What do you pursue?

People pursue happiness, but it’s always temporary. Pursue meaning instead. Emily Esfahani Smith

Bravery

Only the brave can endure suspense. Mignon McLaughlin

Favorable Conditions

The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favourable conditions never come.
CS Lewis

Signs of Endings

Endings and losses are the commonest first sign that people are in transition. These endings tend to be signaled by one of several experiences:

• A sudden and unexpected event that destroys the old life that made you feel like yourself 
• The “drying up” of a situation or a relationship 
• An activity that has always gone well before, suddenly and unexpectedly goes badly 
• A person or an organization that you have always trusted proves it be untrustworthy 
• An inexplicable or unforeseen problem crops up 

 William Bridges
The Way of Transition

Love and Labor

One loves that for which one labors, and one labors for that which one loves. Erich Fromm

Taking the Shot

100% of the shots you don't take, don't go in. - Wayne Gretzky

The Story Changes

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. George Elliot