A failure is a result, not a person. To call someone, or call yourself, a failure is a judgment, not a reality. So, what you did failed. What you tried to achieve didn't make it. You came in 2nd, or 3rd, or 134th, didn't get that job, got injured and can't compete anymore, fell short of honor roll or gave up and dropped out, the business went ... 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 »
If We Were All Perfect, There’d Be No Word for “Love.”
If we were all perfect, there'd be no need for words like, "regret," "mercy," "pardon," "forgiveness," "compassion," "rehabilitation." But most of all, there'd be no need for "Love." It is because we are none of us perfect that Love is so important. Feeling love and giving love is easy when things are going great. Even when they are going just ... 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 »
Aim at Heaven
Aim at Heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. - C.S. Lewis When you look for meaning in your life, aim at Heaven. You don't have to be religious to appreciate this philosophy if you think of Heaven as that ideal state of being that exists beyond earthly rewards. All things physical are nurtured by the ... Continue Reading »
Should You Trash Being Good?
Are you a "good" person who, more and more, finds yourself wishing you were "bad"? Is this you? You were taught to be "good," you naturally try to be and do good, you believe it is the "right thing" to be good, yet the message you get from the world is that those who find success these days are the ones who think being "good" is for ... Continue Reading »