On Discipline
The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself. — Sir Alexander Paterson
On Self-Worship
We do not have to act out everything we feel; that is idolatry of our own selves and does not lead to any kind of deep happiness. — Madeleine L’Engle, in Penguins and Golden Calves
On Pain
Our souls do not grow if we insulate ourselves from pain. — Madeleine L’Engle, in Penguins and Golden Calves
Effective Discipline
Discipline doesn’t work unless it’s founded on the kind of security that comes from knowing you’re loved. — Madeleine L’Engle, A Live Coal in the Sea
Achieving Utopia
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. — Bertrand Russell
The Greatest Moment of Your Life
The great moments, when the world cheers, are not the moments that count. The ones that count are when it’s just you, and people have stopped believing in you. Those are the moments that define you. — Bob Greene ———————————————————– How very true. Think of all of those whom the world has “written off” as […]
Don’t Panic!
Panic makes a small fumble worse. — Sally Koslow, in “Surprising Secrets to Unshakeable Confidence,” Reader’s Digest, February 2006
Death of a Nation
If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilisations in the years of their decay. — Theodore Roosevelt
Are We Settling for Less than the Best?
… our desires [are] not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a […]
On Religion
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. — The Bible, […]