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Thought of the Moment

Suffering

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

- Friedrich Nietzsche Read more

 

Skilled at Dialogue

People who are skilled at dialogue do their best to make it safe for everyone to add their meaning to the shared pool - even ideas that at first glance appear controversial, wrong, or at odds with their own beliefs. Read more

 

Primary Love Languages

Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct.

I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving. Read more

 

Excuses

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

- Don Wilder and Bill Rechin Read more

 

Captain of Your Own Ship

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.

- Bob Moawad Read more

 

New Year

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

- Oprah Winfrey Read more

 

Creators of Our Own Destiny

Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny.

Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves. Read more

 

Self Control

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

- Dale Carnegie Read more

 

Impulses vs. Values

Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment.

Proactive people are driven by values — carefully thought about, selected and internalized values. Read more

 

Friendship

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

- Albert Schweitzer Read more

 

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