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Stories to amuse, provoke thought, or provide a laugh...

Friday, July 31, 2015

Times of Growth

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But as I look back at my life, it is easy to see that the times when my wisdom and understanding grew to new levels; those times when I appr...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Obstacles

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Let a person rejoice when he is confronted with obstacles, for it means that he has reached the end of some particular line of indifference ...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Anger

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Faith

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Faith becomes the one wholly inflexible ground for resistance to violence, precisely because it teaches us how to face death—not in excited ...
Monday, July 27, 2015

Forgiveness

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Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

A Parable on Management

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Once upon a time, there lived a man named Clarence who had a pet frog named Felix. Clarence lived a modestly comfortable existence on what h...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Being Responsible

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This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was ask...
Friday, July 24, 2015

All I Need to know about Life I Learned from Trees

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It's important to have roots. In today's complex world, it pays to branch out. Don't pine away over old flames. If you really be...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

A Subtle Difference

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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lin...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

The Biggest Mistake

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. - Elbert G. Hubbard
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

The Dangers of "Self-Esteem Résumés"

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Note: This illustration could easily be adapted based on details from your own life. When I was at school, my mother kept saying things like...
Monday, July 20, 2015

Life

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There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Friends

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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. - Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854-1921) Mother of Winston Ch...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

Know Yourself

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How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking; always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount t...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Belonging

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Give something to the community in one way or another. It doesn't have to be dramatic, it doesn't have to be in the newspapers. But ...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

A New Adventure

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Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought. - Francois Gautier
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Excellence

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Excellence can be attained if you... * Care more than others think is wise. * Risk more than others think is safe. * Dream more than othe...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Power

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One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. - John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Monday, July 13, 2015

Catalyst for Change

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The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people and reality to somethi...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Enthusiasm

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If we seize each opportunity with enthusiasm, someone will surely notice. The "little extra" that is the automatic byproduct of en...
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Husband and Father, teacher and student of life, love, philosophy, spirituality. Seeking to be an authentic follower of Jesus in a hectic world, in community with others.
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