Personal Development
‘Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~ Viktor Frankl
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Quote To Ponder ~Montesquieu
“I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.” ~Montesquieu Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Francis Bacon
“Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength; of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter much less. Self-reliance and self-denial will teach a man to drink out of his own cistern, and eat his own sweet-bread, and to learn and labor truly to get his own living,… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Louis Kossuth
“Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.” ~Louis Kossuth Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Victor Hugo
“People do not lack strength; they lack will.” ~Victor Hugo Continue reading
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How a skull on your desk will change your life
By Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble The practice of remembering that you will die helps you to keep in mind that your life will end, and that it has a goal: heaven. Visual reminders — often called memento mori, the Latin phrase for “Remember that you will die” — are one way we can keep our… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Henry Ward Beecher
“An acorn is not an oak when it is sprouted. It must go through long summers and fierce winters, and endure all that frost, and snow, and thunder, and storms, and side-striking winds can bring, before it is a full grown oak. So a man is not a man when he is created; he is… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Thomas Carlyle
“The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the pathway of the strong.” ~Thomas Carlyle Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Samuel Smiles
“To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself. Thus earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence.” ~Samuel Smiles Continue reading

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