Path to Regret
A life absent of boldness is a sure path to regret.
Intimacy occurs when we share with another the conversations we normally have only with ourselves.
— Julio Olalla
Newfield Network
Roll up Your Sleeves and Plunge
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows.
It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
Jean Anouilh, 1910 – 1987
French playwright
Space for Coaching
Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.
–Viktor Frankl (1905 – 1997)
in Man’s Search For Meaning
The Chance of a Lifetime in Every Hour
A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.
Rev. Maltbie Babcock
This IS your life, happening right now.
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin.
At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
–Attributed to Alfred D. Souza
The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of his Writings on his Life, Work, and Ideas
The Essential Gandhi:
An Anthology of his Writings onhis Life, Work, and Ideas
by Mahatma Gandhi
or Mohandas K. Gandhi
Louis Fisher, Editor
[Items in square brackets are by Tony Mayo.]
{Items in fancy brackets are by the editor, Louis Fisher.}
p. 15 [As a boy, Gandhi confessed a petty theft to his father and was forgiven.] This was for me an object lesson in Ahimsa [Love and Non-Violence]. Then I could read in it nothing more than a father’s love but today I know that it was pure Ahimsa. When such Ahimsa becomes all-embracing it transforms everything it touches. There is no limit to its power.
This sort of sublime forgiveness was not natural to my father. I had thought he would be angry, say hard things and strike his forehead. But he was so wonderfully peaceful and I believe this was due to (more…)
Your identity is what you’ve committed yourself to
Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something.
The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into (more…)
Beauty of Service
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
–Pearl S. BuckBy Pearl S. Buck
See also Gandhi on service.
Change the World
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
See also Gandhi on impact of minorities.
Looking to Help
There is no reason to look down on any man unless you’re helping him up.
See also Gandhi on humiliation.
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