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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Quotes to Ponder ~Tzu, Krishnmurti, Foster
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” ~Lao Tzu “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~J. Krishnmurti “In The end, winning is sleeping better.” ~Jodie Foster Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Pierre-Marc-Gaston
“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” ~Pierre-Marc-Gaston Continue reading
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Quotes to Ponder ~Vonnegut and Auden
“Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things — he people on the edge see them first.” ~Kurt Vonnegut “Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.” ~W.H. Auden Continue reading
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Resolutions,Rituals,Goals, Tasks and Course Correcting
Easy to forecast that there will be about a million articles, blog posts, Facebook statuses and tweets dealing with New Year’s Resolutions. There will be triple the number of opinions on doing them or not doing…how you should do them or how you shouldn’t do them…why you should do them or why shouldn’t do them that… Continue reading
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A Call for a New Strenuous Age
A Call for a New Strenuous Age, ~The Art of Manliness | Repost Note: All quotes, unless otherwise noted, are taken from No Place for Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 by T. J. Jackson Lears “Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you.” –Flannery O’Connor To look… Continue reading
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As A Man Thinketh ~James Allen | Book Review
A century-old book that still cuts to the core of discipline and responsibility. As a Man Thinketh reminds us that thought precedes action, and character precedes circumstance. The mind is a forge, not a mirror — what we allow to take root there will shape every part of life. Continue reading
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Quote to Ponder ~Edwin Markham
“We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.” ~Edwin Markham Continue reading
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WWII Wisdom on the Qualities and Responsibilities of a True Leader ~Art of Manliness | Repost
WWII Wisdom on the Qualities and Responsibilities of a True Leader ~Art of Manliness AOM Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from FM 22-5, an Army field manual on leadership published in 1946. Its contents were formulated during WWII and codified the year after the war ended. The principles outlined are directed at military… Continue reading
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