Quotes and Thoughts

If you haven’t listened to the TED talks by Sir Ken Robinson you should try and find some time for that this week on your commute to work...

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him." - Martin Luther King Jr. I didn't have a topic in mind when I started researching for this...

"My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings." - Lloyd Alexander This week was our open house at the high school. I was really...

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop This quote of the week essay is brought to you by an experience I had...

I don’t know what scares you, but nothing scares me more than putting myself out in the world socially. One would think, considering I...

"Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission." - Zig Zigler New Year is a time when we typically think...

“I wish we could put some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.” - Harlan Miller As adults and teenagers, I...

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." - George S. Patton One of the biggest issues with society these days is...

“Do it again. Play it again. Sing it again. Read it again. Write it again. Sketch it again. Rehearse it again. Run it again. Try it...

"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...