Quotes and Thoughts

"Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Ian Macleran I was in a state of general agitation at one of my friends who...

“Why worry about things you can’t control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?” - John C Maxwell...

For the purposes of this blog I have not included the gratitude list which I created that I promised a few weeks ago. It was very...

Last weekend I went with my brother and father to see our high school football team play. I don’t usually go to the games, I’m not a...

"The things you take for granted someone else is praying for." - Unknown This week I am beginning a three week series on thankfulness....

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.” - Carl Sagan Emmons Grade School in Antioch, Illinois has an...

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get ran over if you just sit there." - Will Rodgers Here's an interesting observation: it's...

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear." - Ram Dass Dass states the obvious. If you’re inherently loud and obnoxious like I can...

"Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story,...

"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." The subject of this pre-essay anecdote is Maddie Shrine, a...

"The minute you start compromising the truth for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over." - Gordon Ramsay My favorite...

"Storms make trees take deeper roots." - Dolly Parton This week I had a classic homework assignment. The old: "Interview an adult on nine...

“Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.” - Gary Vaynurchuk I don’t know about you, but I’m to the point of the year where it’s easy to...

“An attitude of entitlement is inversely related to one of gratitude.” - Pete Wilson This week’s essay is about entitlement. So it’s...

"There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs." - Zig Zigler Last week I started my full time schooling schedule. For...

"A conceited person never really gets anywhere because he things he is already there." - Hal Roach In my personal copy of "The Speaker's...

"Spread love everywhere. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." - Mother Teresa In case you have not noticed, we live in a...

"Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?" - C.S. Lewis This week we went to spend...

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent...