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Excellence Lifestyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Neil Eskelin,
Daily Jump Start"Excellence becomes a lifestyle only when we practice the Golden Rule without giving it a second thought. That’s possible when we elevate the worth of others to the same level we hold for ourselves. Les Giblin, an authority on human relations, says that our actions must be genuine. ‘You can’t make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you think he is a nobody.’"
Good Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . William Arthur Ward
"A good education is the doorway to opportunity;
A positive attitude is the stairway to success."
If There Is… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chinese proverb
"If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world."
Generate Inspiration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frank Tibolt
"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."
Wise Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Alan Loy McGinnis
"It is a wise leader who tenaciously teaches people how to learn from their mistakes and how to keep from quitting. The best managers expect their people to make mistakes, and…recognize that it is more efficient to teach people how to cope with their failures and learn from their mistakes. In other words, they are not so much judges and disciplinarians as they are coaches and teachers. If they can impart perseverance and tenacity and help others learn from their errors, they will be doing them an important service and at the same time be creating a superior organization."
Wisdom Seeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anonymous
"It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them."
"Knowledge and timber should not be much used till they are seasoned."
"The whale only gets harpooned when it spouts off."
Kind Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mother Teresa
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly great."
And The Day Came… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anaïs Nin
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloom."
A New Year’s Prayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anonymous
"Dear Lord, please give me
A few friends who understand me and remain my friends;
A work to do which has real value,
without which the world would be the poorer;
A mind unafraid to travel, even though the trail be not blazed;
An understanding heart;
A sense of humor;
Time for quiet, silent meditation;
A feeling of the presence of God;
The patience to wait for the coming of these things,
With the wisdom to recognize them when they come.
Amen."
Life is Lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stephen Vincent Benét
"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."
Visioneering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dennis Denton, Insight, # 83, 6
4. Maturity. You will encounter adversity and setbacks, but they won’t matter. Your burning desire propels you up and over setbacks, and gradually you start bringing your goal into being.
Holy, Healing Humor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . St. Francis de Sales
"Humor is the foundation of reconciliation."
Messengers of Joy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pope John Paul II
"Christ came to bring joy: joy to children, joy to parents, joy to families and to friends, joy to workers and to scholars, joy to the sick and joy to the elderly, joy to all humanity. In a true sense, joy is the keynote of the Christian message and the recurring motif of the Gospels…Be messengers of joy."
I Have a Dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal’…I have a dream that one day ‘every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plains, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together’…This will be the day when all God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning, ‘My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims’ pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring’…
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all God’s children, black and white, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’"
Destruction of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anthony de Mello, SJ
Much advance publicity was made for the address the Master would deliver on "Destruction of the World" and a large crowd had gathered at the monastery grounds to hear him.
The address was over in less than a minute. All he said was:
"These things will destroy the human race:
politics without principle,
progress without compassion,
wealth without work,
learning without silence,
religion without fearlessness
and worship without awareness."
Apples of Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 66
"The hardest thing of all in life—
The conquest not of time and space,
But of ourselves, of our stupidity and inertia,
Of our greediness and touchiness,
Of our fear and intolerant dogmatism."
Zest for Living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Earl Nightingale,
Insight, # 66, p.19"We should never lose our zest for living, our excitement and enthusiasm, our curiosity, our desire to know. The person who does is certainly blind to the world, its miracles and possibilities, and one’s own possibilities."
We Live in… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parker Palmer,
WEAVINGS, Vol. III, # 4, p. 2"Today we live in a culture of brokenness and fragmentation. Images of individualism and autonomy are far more compelling to us than visions of unity, and the fabric of relatedness seems dangerously threadbare and frayed."
Law of Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peyton Conway March
"There is a wonderful law of nature that the three things we crave most in life—happiness, freedom and peace of mind—are always acquired by giving them to someone else."
Prayer to Illuminate Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anonymous
A convention was called in 1787 in the fledgling United States of America to revise the "Articles of Confederation." For weeks delegates reviewed ancient history and analyzed governmental structures of Europe in search of insights. But nothing suited the circumstances of this infant nation. Finally, one of the distinguished delegates, Benjamin Franklin, addressed the gathering. Referring to their meager progress, Franklin said, "In the situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth and scarcely able to distinguish the same when it is presented to us, how has it happened that we have not hitherto once thought of humbling applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings?"
Those early leaders were not all Christians, yet many of them believed in a sovereign God and sought His wisdom in the affairs of state.
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