we know not
/We know what we are, but not what we may be. – Shakespeare
finding the time
/We find time for anything we really want to do.
living out truth
/We can only acquire the truth as part of the process whereby we learn to live out the truth. C. Stephen Evans
our disguise
/We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
our own facts
/We are entitled to our own opinions but not to our own facts. Daniel Moynihan
the same horizon
/We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon -Konrad Adenauer
just religious talk
/The way we live is what we believe. The rest is just religious talk.
excellence
/There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
– David Starr Jordan
You!
/There is no one alive who is youer than You. - Dr. Seuss
The Line
/It was only when I lay there on rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. Even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained; and even in the best of all hearts, there remains a small corner of evil.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
We're Lost Our Mirrors
/Societies have rites of passage to help members deal with change. When these cues are missing and we have nothing in our lives to affirm that change is appropriate and timely, we’ve lost our mirrors. This is when a dependable support system can step up to make the difference. Just like the recovering alcoholic needs reminders about what a healthy identity looks like, we need a trusted circle of friends to remind us that the change in our lives is both positive and necessary. And we need that circle to encourage us to embrace the new identity and not the old one.
Stephen Goforth
thruth springs
/Truth springs from argument amongst friends. –David Hume
your day!
/Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way. -Dr. Seuss
keeping your soul
/To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul-would you understand why that is much harder? -Ayn Rand
to do right
/To do right because of reputation, to do right because it is the correct thing, to do right to escape criticism, all such motives will fail sooner or later. To do right because I love is the one and only lasting motive. "Love never fails." G. Campbell Morgan
to be trusted
/To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. –George MacDonald
to be blind
/To be blind is bad, but worse it is to have eyes and not to see. – Helen Keller
not a bystander
/Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. -Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC
Why is it so impossible to get everything done?
/Several research studies have shown that people never get more done by blindly working more hours on everything that comes up. Instead, they get more done when they follow careful plans that measure and track key priorities and milestones. So if you want to be more successful and less stressed, don’t ask how to make something more efficient until you’ve first asked, “Do I need to do this at all?”
Simply being able to do something well does not make it the right thing to do. I think this is one of the most common problems with a lot of time-management advice; too often productivity gurus focus on how to do things quickly, but the vast majority of things people do quickly should not be done at all.
If you think about it, it’s actually kind of ironic that we complain we have so little time, and then we prioritize like time is infinite. So do your best to focus on what’s truly important, and not much else.