If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. - Albert Einstein My Gunny is addicted to his happiness. I know Gunther loves me, and I'm the most important person in his world, but when there's a tennis ball around, my conviction gets a little shaky. There is nothing that can capture G-Man's complete attention like a ... Continue Reading »
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Real Riches Cannot Be Stolen
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. - Oscar Wilde Times are hard. Jobs lost, homes lost, relationships lost. Savings, security, plans for the future. The loss of these things may be out of your control. But the loss of faith, the loss of hope, only you can ... Continue Reading »
Building Faith, One Step At A Time
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. - Martin Luther King, Jr. We're losing faith, but losing it may be what it takes to build it back up again--within you. The most precarious way to live your life is to think you can actually control where you're going to end up. Seriously. Nothing in life goes the way ... Continue Reading »
If You Want Harmony, Fill the Silence
When I was in grade school, I learned to play the trombone. It's not that I had any great longing to learn how to play the trombone. It was just that nobody else wanted to play it. And that made all the difference. You see, the band wouldn't have been complete if there wasn't someone to play the trombone. It wasn't a conventional band. There was ... Continue Reading »
Are You Better Than Your Best?
“Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.” - Winston Churchill How often do you tell yourself you did the best you could, but deep down inside know more was required of you, and you could have done more? There is a fine line between "I did my best," and "I did the best I could." To do your best is to ... Continue Reading »
A Life Well Spent Brings Happy Death
Thanksgiving always makes me think of a wonderful quote from the diaries of Leonardo da Vinci, “While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.” Your first reaction to reading something like this is probably to recoil, maybe say, “What the...huh?” Hang on, though. Think about it. Learning how to die is actually a ... Continue Reading »