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Expression of Kindness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mother Teresa,
Christian Quotes via Top Achievement"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."
Conflict Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Woodrow Wilson
"If you come at me with your fists doubled, I think I can promise you that mine will double…but if you come to me and say: ‘Let us sit down and take counsel together, and, if we differ, understand why it is that we differ’ we will find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we agree are many—if we only have the patience and the candor and the desire to get together, we will get together."
Committed to Excellence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vince Lombardi, via
Positive Press"Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence and to victory, even though we know complete victory cannot be obtained, it must be pursued with all one’s might.…It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure."
On Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim Rohn, via JimRohn.com
"Managers help people to see themselves as they are.
Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are."
Take Time to be Aware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edward Hays, A Pilgrim’s Almanac, p. 196
"Take time to be aware that in the very midst of our busy preparations for the celebration of Christ’s birth in ancient Bethlehem, Christ is reborn in the Bethlehems of our homes and daily lives. Take time, slow down, be still, be awake to the Divine Mystery that looks so common and so ordinary yet is wondrously present.
An old abbot was fond of saying, ‘The devil is always the most active on the highest feast days.’
The supreme trick of Old Scratch is to have us so busy decorating, preparing food, practicing music and cleaning in preparation for the feast of Christmas that we actually miss the coming of Christ. Hurt feelings, anger, impatience, injured egos—the list of clouds that busyness creates to blind us to the birth can be long, but it is familiar to us all."
The Way to Happiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anonymous
"Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, do much. Fill your life with love, scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others and do as you would be done by.
Try it for a week, you will be surprised."
Christian Pilgrimage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fr. James Turro
"It should be one of our nagging fears that we may die with our gifts yet unwrapped, with our talents and our skills untried and unused in the service of God and neighbor.
We should not be caught short but give while there is yet time to give. Thus, when our day comes to stand before God, we must appear with empty hands, with our opportunities for doing good all exploited, with our resources for making people happy all depleted."
How to Create Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gerhard Gschwadtner, Personal Selling Power, Vol. 12, # 8, p.21
"7. Managing Adversity: Rise Beyond your Limitations—The law, that obstacles are conditions for success, holds true in human life. Without any difficulty, forward momentum would be impossible. Obstacles can lead us to search for new energies within us that we never believed we had.
Paul Galanti, former prisoner-of-war in North Vietnam, said, ‘I am convinced that people who complain about adversity have just never been pushed so hard that they’ve had to fight back and win little victories."
Success in Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Danny Thomas
"All are born for a reason, but all of us don’t discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life, or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others."
Apple Seeds—Thoughts for Teachers
"Dec. 29: Students want to be cherished for who they are, not just for their abilities or achievements."
No-Nonsense Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Sloma
"Never try to solve all the problems all at once—make them line up one-by-one.
Because time is your most important asset, parcel it out grudgingly and wisely. Problems can be handled if you consider them one at a time—because then you can match each problem with an appropriate time unit."
Worried to Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anonymous
Death was walking toward a city one morning and a man asked, "What are you going to do?"
"I’ve come to take 100 people." Death replied.
"That’s horrible!" the man said.
"That’s the way it is." Death said. "That’s what I do."
The man hurried to warn everyone he could about Death’s plan. As evening fell, he met Death again. "You told me you were going to take 100 people," the man said. "Why did 1,000 die?"
"I kept my word," Death responded. "I only took 100 people. Worry took the others."
The Christmas Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wm. Frebuger, "Making Christmas a Saving Event,"
Catholic Update, 12-85
"Luke’s Gospel account of the Christmas event is full of activity…And yet, in the middle of the frenetic action, here is this woman wrapped in mystical silence… She demonstrates the necessity of a quiet place within ourselves at Christmastime—that place where we are most ourselves in relation to God. It is a place of silence, not because it is untouched by all the activity of our lives, but because it is capable of wonder. Every prayer begins with silent wonder before it turns to words. Our first response to God is dumbstruck awe at who he is and what he has done for us."
A Special Message to Deliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sower’s Seeds Aplenty, # 43
"There is an old Jewish-Christian tradition which says: God sends each person into this world with a special message to deliver, with a special song to sing for others, with an act of love to bestow.
No one else can speak my message, or sing my song, or offer my act of love. These are entrusted only to me. According to this tradition, the message may be spoken, the song sung, the act of love delivered only to a few, or to all the folk in a small town, or to all the people in a large city, or even to all those in the whole world.
It all depends on God’s unique plan for each person. To which we might add: The greatest gift of God, one would think, is the gift of life. The greatest sin of humans, it would seem, would be to return that gift, ungrateful and unopened."
Markings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dag Hammarskjöld, p. 109"When the morning’s freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles quiver under the strain, the climb seems endless, and, suddenly, nothing will go quite as you wish, it is then that you must not hesitate."
Personal Responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Whoopie Goldberg
"It is not enough to recall principles, state intentions, point to crying injustices and utter prophetic denunciations; these words will lack real weight unless they are accompanied for each individual by a livelier awareness of personal responsibility and by effective action."
Get More than Give . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Henry Ward Beecher
"There never was a person who did anything worth doing who did not receive more than he gave."
The Aim of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anonymous
The Master welcomed the advances of technology, but was keenly aware of its limitations. When an industrialist asked him what was his occupation, he replied, "I’m in the people industry."
"And what, pray, would that be?" asked the industrialist.
"Take yourself," said the Master. "Your efforts produce better things; mine, better people."
To his disciples he later said, "The aim of life is the flowering of persons. Nowadays people seem concerned mostly with the perfectioning of things."
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