Thought of the Moment

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

- Theodore Roosevelt Read more

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

- Aristotle Read more

Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster.

- Friedrich Nietzsche Read more

A good friend doesn't make you wonder if he or she is taking advantage of you. If you have to wonder more than once, ask yourself if you would want a loved one to have that kind of friend over the long term.

As Khalil Gibran once wrote, friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Read more

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller Read more

Look at the people around you and consider which of them don't care how much money you have or don't have, what you've accomplished, or what you look like.

These are the people who should really matter to you. They're the ones you should think of the most and treat the best. You are highly unlikely to find anything better over the course of your life.  Read more

If you dilute yourself trying to please everyone, you won't have anything substantial or powerful to offer anyone, including yourself. Be selective about where you choose to focus your energy.

- Emily Maroutian Read more

To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.  To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.
 
- From "The Art Of Racing In The Rain"  Read more

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

- Martin Luther King Jr. Read more

While you may believe your most important challenge is to raise your children well, there’s an even more essential task you need to attend to, which is the foundation of effective parenting. This task is to raise yourself into the most awakened and present individual you can be. The reason this is central to good parenting is that children don’t need our ideas and expectations, or our dominance and control, only for us to be attuned to them with our engaged presence.

- Dr. Shefali Tsabary Read more