Character
“Biography will ever be the highest and most civilizing form of literature” –Joel Augustus Rogers
Reading
Hindsight
“A people will never look forward to posterity who never look backward toward their ancestors.” –Edmund Burke
Second Nature Of Habits
“You can systematically improve the quality of your lifestyle by reinforcing good and productive habits so that they eventually become second nature.” -C.J.S.
Improve The Probability
“You can improve the probability that you will have a good outcome by improving your decision making.” –Annie Duke
What Are You Encouraging?
“Weeds don’t need any encouragement to grow. Much like our negative and repetitive thoughts they have a force and will of their own. This seems to be a function of our minds left over from the days of old when life was a lot more dangerous and difficult. Advertisers, news media outlets and propagandists seem … Read moreWhat Are You Encouraging?
Die But Once
“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.” – William Shakespeare
Eternal Enthusiasm
“Don’t walk around with a sense of self defeat and unending doubt. Cut the ties to these parasitic powers. The world, whether we like it or not, will already do that for us. It will automatically write us off, and ask us to prove the necessity of our existence and why we deserve attention and … Read moreEternal Enthusiasm
Self Actualization
“There comes a time in every mans education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance and imitation is suicide and that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Still Small Voice
“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.” –Howard Thurman … Read moreThe Still Small Voice