Stretching

My own happiest times have not been when all was secure but rather when I was stretching to learn to fulfill a task which called for more than I have to give – and I was trying to give it.

My optimism

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. – Henry Rollins

Where dogmatists come from

Most people tend to overcompensate.. people who are riddled with doubts tend to be dogmatists who are never wrong – John Powell

Two Things

My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things, that I am a great sinner, and that Christ is a great Saviour. - John Newton, author of “Amazing grace”

Additions

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

Second Winds

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

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

The Habit of Excellence

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. - Aristotle

Enmity

Men need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

Reaction

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung

Don't wait

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

The Test

Nearly all men can stand adversity. but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln

You can't do that

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