-The tumultuous period of adolescence is when values and priorities are forged, meaning and purpose are discovered, and an inner compass is honed. this critical work of crafting the self helps the teen determine how to engage with the world.
-Spirituality si the most robust protective factor against the big three dangers of adolescence: depression, substance abuse, and risk taking.
-Spiritual individuation is the adolescent's drive to find deeper personal meaning and purpose, in himself and in life.
-The process of spiritual awakening is triggered by puberty, literally ignited in the brain by the same rush of hormones that trigger sexual growth.
-Family, school, community, and personal choices of the adolescent create the environment that shapes the adolescent brain.
-When head and heart are connected, there is a resource, a guiding inner voice, that helps answer the questions and can actively respond to help the teen resist temptation.
-The emerging picture from research is clear: the brain's front-back connectivity is critical in helping adolescents process their experiences and feelings, modulate impulses, and make good decisions that are informed by head and heart.
-Severed spirituality occurs when transcendence is not infused into the developmental process of adolescence. The foundation is built withouth the strength, connection and direction of spirituality. If we have severed the spirit during groundlaying work, the house is colder, darker, and less sure. The structural integrity is compromised.
Saturday, August 24, 2019
The Spiritual Child by Lisa Miller. Quotes VII
-What comes around, goes around karma.
-Dreams, mystical experiences, and more common spiritual experiences are sources of direct knowing, direct, authentic, and uncommanded experience, that invite connection between a child's head and heart knowing.
-How can we keep those neural connections of unitive empathy strong? Language, our own actions, and love are our most powerful tools.
-The child of four through six or seven years old still feels others' suffering directly, not as if they know what it's like, but as their own.
-The conversation about spiritual values isn't a conversation that should be segregated from the rest of a child's learning experience.
-If you encourage your child's natural spiritual assets, trusting heart kwowing and validating direct transcendent experience; encouraging natural love of nature, of spiritual ritual and prayer and right action, and the sense of family as special, these assets will develop into spiritual strengths with lfelong benefits.
-Simple parental attention is more than simply supportive.
-A child's inner life is an instrument of spiritual knowing, a trustworthy inner compass that aligns itself for health, and orients toward the truth and spiritual values.
-Young children experience parents as omniscient beings, loving and protective.
-Sports teams tap into kids' hardwired spiritual values: for selfless commitment, collective practice, ritual, play, and higher purpose.
-All people of genuine, loving spiritual nature share a fundamental sense of goodness in how they view others and the world we share.
-If you can stand up for yourself and others on the playground, you are solid.
-Our values dictate how we play.
-Dreams offer a deeper developmental narrative of the transition, helping the child take just one step beyond. This is what a dream does: it illuminates our path.
-Dreams, mystical experiences, and more common spiritual experiences are sources of direct knowing, direct, authentic, and uncommanded experience, that invite connection between a child's head and heart knowing.
-How can we keep those neural connections of unitive empathy strong? Language, our own actions, and love are our most powerful tools.
-The child of four through six or seven years old still feels others' suffering directly, not as if they know what it's like, but as their own.
-The conversation about spiritual values isn't a conversation that should be segregated from the rest of a child's learning experience.
-If you encourage your child's natural spiritual assets, trusting heart kwowing and validating direct transcendent experience; encouraging natural love of nature, of spiritual ritual and prayer and right action, and the sense of family as special, these assets will develop into spiritual strengths with lfelong benefits.
-Simple parental attention is more than simply supportive.
-A child's inner life is an instrument of spiritual knowing, a trustworthy inner compass that aligns itself for health, and orients toward the truth and spiritual values.
-Young children experience parents as omniscient beings, loving and protective.
-Sports teams tap into kids' hardwired spiritual values: for selfless commitment, collective practice, ritual, play, and higher purpose.
-All people of genuine, loving spiritual nature share a fundamental sense of goodness in how they view others and the world we share.
-If you can stand up for yourself and others on the playground, you are solid.
-Our values dictate how we play.
-Dreams offer a deeper developmental narrative of the transition, helping the child take just one step beyond. This is what a dream does: it illuminates our path.
The Spiritual Child by Lisa Miller. Quotes VI
-When we live authentically in an affirmative space of inspiration, events unfold in the realm of miracles.
-Love grows exponentially. You put a little bit of love and you get twice as much back.
-Suffering is lighter when we are bonded together.
-Don't stop with people: include pets or wildlife, and all aspects of nature. This can make a lovely bedtime ritual, a nightly remembering of all the love and support that exists for your child, from Mom and Dad and siblings to family far and near, naming each one and, especially for those who live far away, naming where they live to help your child feel their presence. For those who have passed on, you can say loved you even before you were born and still do.
-Family is sacred.
-Many religious traditions hold that family members are purposefully brought together to share life lessons and help each other grow.
-We can notice one another first and foremost as souls on earth rather than the label we might assign in a judging way: the smart one, etc.
-Family models our core humanity.
-When we como from a place of love and acceptance, then suddenly other people are worthy, not weird.
-Express thanks for the gift of the day and the many ways those gifts present themselves.
-There was not disadvantage in mental health between those children who had been left behind and those who lived with both parents. The love and support that the children needed to flourish was sufficient from any committed loving source.
-Cynical people have a higher likelihood of developing dementia: cynicism appears to be neuro-degenerative for the long term.
-We don't make our child spiritual at all. We cultivate their spirituality when we recognize the field of love as ground and guide for spiritual parenting. We set our intention to make our home environment and communities, our actions and expectations, and our ways of interacting with one another to be consistent with spiritual values.
-Love grows exponentially. You put a little bit of love and you get twice as much back.
-Suffering is lighter when we are bonded together.
-Don't stop with people: include pets or wildlife, and all aspects of nature. This can make a lovely bedtime ritual, a nightly remembering of all the love and support that exists for your child, from Mom and Dad and siblings to family far and near, naming each one and, especially for those who live far away, naming where they live to help your child feel their presence. For those who have passed on, you can say loved you even before you were born and still do.
-Family is sacred.
-Many religious traditions hold that family members are purposefully brought together to share life lessons and help each other grow.
-We can notice one another first and foremost as souls on earth rather than the label we might assign in a judging way: the smart one, etc.
-Family models our core humanity.
-When we como from a place of love and acceptance, then suddenly other people are worthy, not weird.
-Express thanks for the gift of the day and the many ways those gifts present themselves.
-There was not disadvantage in mental health between those children who had been left behind and those who lived with both parents. The love and support that the children needed to flourish was sufficient from any committed loving source.
-Cynical people have a higher likelihood of developing dementia: cynicism appears to be neuro-degenerative for the long term.
-We don't make our child spiritual at all. We cultivate their spirituality when we recognize the field of love as ground and guide for spiritual parenting. We set our intention to make our home environment and communities, our actions and expectations, and our ways of interacting with one another to be consistent with spiritual values.
The Spiritual Child. Quotes V
-Practices to improve mindfulness are effective in calming emotions, focusing attention and relieving anxiety.
-Focus and attention in children are cultivated in long silences and introspective moments.
-Children and teens need time to watch the bee and sit with the tree, let their minds wander and wonder.
-By allowing and cultivating peaceful moments, we encourage mindfulness.
-If we build our positive assets, we have a far-enhanced inner landscape through which to relate and ultimately thrive in the world.
-Child and parent are attuned to one another, both as senders and receivers, well beyond physical sight, sound, or touch. This phenomenon is the unitive state, a shared experience between child and parent.
-The child's pure happiness for the assembled relatives may reawaken us to the joyousness of having a family beyond the petty concerns or unfortunate wrinkles of the past. Like a family assembled, together we are more than the sum of our parts.
-The child is born whole. This new soul arrives with spirituality intact. The developmental work of childhood and then adolescence is to integrate this natural spirituality into the changing capacities of cognitive, social, emotional, moral, and physical growth.
-We can raise strong souls.
-Long, loving silences let the connection flow.
-In a world of sometimes shocking mixed messages, parents intuitively try to create a home in which values cultivate a deeper and more resonant life, one with higher meaning and purpose.
-Spiritual presence, guidance, and values can come from extended family, close friends, psychologists, youth workers and clergy, coaches, and educators. Each of these important adults has a personal choice to decide to be a spiritual presence and model of love.
-Trascendence is prominent in the positive experiences of compassion, forgiveness, hope, and joy that we share with one another.
-We do not need to be perfectly on the mark each day, but the field can become and ever present statement of how we aim to live as family and who we are as family.
-When we lean into the goal of being a collective field of love, things change.
-The field of love is in us, and in the space between us, made up of love so strong that it feels almost physical to the touch.
-Focus and attention in children are cultivated in long silences and introspective moments.
-Children and teens need time to watch the bee and sit with the tree, let their minds wander and wonder.
-By allowing and cultivating peaceful moments, we encourage mindfulness.
-If we build our positive assets, we have a far-enhanced inner landscape through which to relate and ultimately thrive in the world.
-Child and parent are attuned to one another, both as senders and receivers, well beyond physical sight, sound, or touch. This phenomenon is the unitive state, a shared experience between child and parent.
-The child's pure happiness for the assembled relatives may reawaken us to the joyousness of having a family beyond the petty concerns or unfortunate wrinkles of the past. Like a family assembled, together we are more than the sum of our parts.
-The child is born whole. This new soul arrives with spirituality intact. The developmental work of childhood and then adolescence is to integrate this natural spirituality into the changing capacities of cognitive, social, emotional, moral, and physical growth.
-We can raise strong souls.
-Long, loving silences let the connection flow.
-In a world of sometimes shocking mixed messages, parents intuitively try to create a home in which values cultivate a deeper and more resonant life, one with higher meaning and purpose.
-Spiritual presence, guidance, and values can come from extended family, close friends, psychologists, youth workers and clergy, coaches, and educators. Each of these important adults has a personal choice to decide to be a spiritual presence and model of love.
-Trascendence is prominent in the positive experiences of compassion, forgiveness, hope, and joy that we share with one another.
-We do not need to be perfectly on the mark each day, but the field can become and ever present statement of how we aim to live as family and who we are as family.
-When we lean into the goal of being a collective field of love, things change.
-The field of love is in us, and in the space between us, made up of love so strong that it feels almost physical to the touch.
The Spiritual Child. Quotes IV
-Spirituality in adulthood was linked to less suffering in life, less depression and substance abuse, higher rates of recovery from physical illness, and even a longer life span.
-A key factor in thriving has to do with the habits of living, particularly around relationships, that we establish in childhood.
-These daily ways of living are so much a part of our family culture and conversation that we absorb them like a sponge.
-Regardless of race, ethnicity, or apparent material wealth, some people shone with a brightness of warmth and kindness, with radiant eyes and expressions, while others were visibly downcast and burdened. I came to think of this brightness as a sign that, spiritually, the light is on.
-Spirituality is not found in the mother or the youth alone but in the nod: the passage from parent to child or grandparent to grandchild.
-The parent is an ambassador of transcendence, the guide on the ground who introduces a child to the spiritually attuned life.
-Everyone is born with an inherent spirituality, a natural sense of trascendence.
-The power of the nod was illuminated for me by the compassionate grandmother and granddaughter royal couple on the subway that Sunday twenty years ago.
-I am very spiritual. Why? Because my father just really, really loved me. I mean he absolutely adored me. The way that his love felt, I now feel a similar feeling, it's that feeling, from God.
-The way a baby looks at you, and especially your own baby... they look at you with this sense of you are my everything, and that is amazing.
-Babies bring out the best in us.
-Parents are perceived as generally carrying divine qualities.
-The natural long term developmental trajectory of the brain is toward enligthment. This path is only disturbed by our contemporary culture putting spirituality on the back shelf.
-The deeply soulful presence of a newborn or youngster grabs our attention, shows us the realm of human possibility, and perhaps jolts us into remembering a bigger reality from our own childhood. They show us our true spiritual nature.
-A key factor in thriving has to do with the habits of living, particularly around relationships, that we establish in childhood.
-These daily ways of living are so much a part of our family culture and conversation that we absorb them like a sponge.
-Regardless of race, ethnicity, or apparent material wealth, some people shone with a brightness of warmth and kindness, with radiant eyes and expressions, while others were visibly downcast and burdened. I came to think of this brightness as a sign that, spiritually, the light is on.
-Spirituality is not found in the mother or the youth alone but in the nod: the passage from parent to child or grandparent to grandchild.
-The parent is an ambassador of transcendence, the guide on the ground who introduces a child to the spiritually attuned life.
-Everyone is born with an inherent spirituality, a natural sense of trascendence.
-The power of the nod was illuminated for me by the compassionate grandmother and granddaughter royal couple on the subway that Sunday twenty years ago.
-I am very spiritual. Why? Because my father just really, really loved me. I mean he absolutely adored me. The way that his love felt, I now feel a similar feeling, it's that feeling, from God.
-The way a baby looks at you, and especially your own baby... they look at you with this sense of you are my everything, and that is amazing.
-Babies bring out the best in us.
-Parents are perceived as generally carrying divine qualities.
-The natural long term developmental trajectory of the brain is toward enligthment. This path is only disturbed by our contemporary culture putting spirituality on the back shelf.
-The deeply soulful presence of a newborn or youngster grabs our attention, shows us the realm of human possibility, and perhaps jolts us into remembering a bigger reality from our own childhood. They show us our true spiritual nature.
Sunday, August 18, 2019
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Solomon Grey - Home (official audio)
Follow you home
How could I ever live without you
Follow you home
Until the witch grey I could never let you go
And you're free
And you're free
Just follow you home
I'll take you back to where we used to live
Thankfully now
These times will never go away again
And you're free
And you're free
Just watch you go out
Only…
Monday, August 12, 2019
Geoffroy - Raised By Wolves (Official Video)
I was lost now I'm found,
I'm sustained by the sound,
Of the angels singing me to sleep,
While my feet are leaving the ground,
Am I dead? Or am I dreaming instead?
A cornucopia of opiates have flooded my head
I'm sustained by the sound,
Of the angels singing me to sleep,
While my feet are leaving the ground,
Am I dead? Or am I dreaming instead?
A cornucopia of opiates have flooded my head
I'm insane, I am smart,
All it takes, is a spark, to ignite my bad intentions,
And do what I do best to your heart,
Don't be fooled I was raised by the wolves,
Now the moon hangs in full, so you know I won't play by the rules
All it takes, is a spark, to ignite my bad intentions,
And do what I do best to your heart,
Don't be fooled I was raised by the wolves,
Now the moon hangs in full, so you know I won't play by the rules
I will never spill
(spill my blood for you)
You have let me down
(one too many times)
Someway somehow, we've fallen out,
Caught in between my enemies,
No way not now, I won't back down,
I draw the line at you and me,
Your what I started, now disregarded,
One day they'll see, it was always me
(spill my blood for you)
You have let me down
(one too many times)
Someway somehow, we've fallen out,
Caught in between my enemies,
No way not now, I won't back down,
I draw the line at you and me,
Your what I started, now disregarded,
One day they'll see, it was always me
Due to mistakes, I have made to the state,
I…
I…
Friday, August 9, 2019
The Spiritual Child. Quotes III
-What makes us spiritual is our awareness that our lives, our relationships, and the natural world both seen and unseen are filled with an ultimate presence.
-Is it the case that good guys tend to be spiritual? Yes.
-People with greater hunger and pursuit of spiritual transcendence were viewed by other people as more self-actualized, emotionally balanced, and delighted in living.
-From early adolescence to emerging adulthood, we live through the most intense surge into spiritual arrival.
-How can we help support and encourage natural spirituality?
-Spiritual development foundational to adolescent development, and if it is not supported, we often see other failed attempts to achieve direction, connection, and a sense of transcendence and inner peace, through substance abuse, risk taking, and casual sex.
-With spiritual growth also come the positive psychology assets shown to accompany spirituality: thriving, optimism, grit, and the relational assets of forgiveness, intimacy, and commitment.
-Another way to conceptualize this idea is to imagine a view high above ourselves and our situation, looking down and through and in; this view from the mountaintop is the view by the higher self, or observing eye.
-When we meditate, we feel less revved up for fight or flight.
-We can see the broad and pervasive positive effects of seeing life from the seat of the higher self, which is filled with the clarity, perspective, and wisdom of the knower.
-A state of craving in our inner life means we never feel satisfied.
-When participants shift their mind to the transcendent relationship, there is a cessation of blood flow in the region of the brain associated with craving.
-Is it the case that good guys tend to be spiritual? Yes.
-People with greater hunger and pursuit of spiritual transcendence were viewed by other people as more self-actualized, emotionally balanced, and delighted in living.
-From early adolescence to emerging adulthood, we live through the most intense surge into spiritual arrival.
-How can we help support and encourage natural spirituality?
-Spiritual development foundational to adolescent development, and if it is not supported, we often see other failed attempts to achieve direction, connection, and a sense of transcendence and inner peace, through substance abuse, risk taking, and casual sex.
-With spiritual growth also come the positive psychology assets shown to accompany spirituality: thriving, optimism, grit, and the relational assets of forgiveness, intimacy, and commitment.
-Another way to conceptualize this idea is to imagine a view high above ourselves and our situation, looking down and through and in; this view from the mountaintop is the view by the higher self, or observing eye.
-When we meditate, we feel less revved up for fight or flight.
-We can see the broad and pervasive positive effects of seeing life from the seat of the higher self, which is filled with the clarity, perspective, and wisdom of the knower.
-A state of craving in our inner life means we never feel satisfied.
-When participants shift their mind to the transcendent relationship, there is a cessation of blood flow in the region of the brain associated with craving.
The Spiritual Child by Lisa Miller. Quotes II
-We are so very much more, from our chidren's wondrous arrival into our lives to their rounds of questioning and development, when we pay attention and we reflect, we can see great things through their spiritual lens.
-What is this parenting journey is actually the ultimate spiritual journey.
-We are also aware of the psychological toll on kids who are over-scheduled and under chronic pressure to perform, and we want to preserve childhood as a joyful, explorative and carefree time.
-Spirituality is an inner sense of relationship to a higher power that is loving and guiding.
-Spiritual development is the growth and progression of our inborn spirituality.
-The way in which a parent supports a child's spiritual development has a great deal to do with how a child grows into that rich spiritual potential.
-People with a developed spirituality gets sick less, are happier, and feel more connected and less isolated.
-The brains of spiritually engaged people when simply resting with closed eyes is the same wavelength as that of a monk during mediation.
-Spiritual individuation has a paradox. It is grueling, yet eminently satisfying, uplifting, and mind-opening.
-An adolescent with a strong personal with the higher power.
-Authentic spirituality requires reflection and the development of a road back to transcendence through the cultivation of our inner life, through prayer, meditation or perhaps good works, intertwined with our general capacities of cognition, morality, and emotion.
-You are never mistaken for supporting a child's spiritual self.
-The difficult lies not in solving problems but in expressing them.
-All she had to do to support his daughter was to pay attention.
-The precious opportunity before you is that you child is giving you an opening and saying: Hey, come with me. You don't need to know where you are going, or how you are going to get there, you are simply asked to go with her. Our children look to us, but not really for the answers. We're being asked to show up. We need to show up, but we don't need to have all the answers.
-What is this parenting journey is actually the ultimate spiritual journey.
-We are also aware of the psychological toll on kids who are over-scheduled and under chronic pressure to perform, and we want to preserve childhood as a joyful, explorative and carefree time.
-Spirituality is an inner sense of relationship to a higher power that is loving and guiding.
-Spiritual development is the growth and progression of our inborn spirituality.
-The way in which a parent supports a child's spiritual development has a great deal to do with how a child grows into that rich spiritual potential.
-People with a developed spirituality gets sick less, are happier, and feel more connected and less isolated.
-The brains of spiritually engaged people when simply resting with closed eyes is the same wavelength as that of a monk during mediation.
-Spiritual individuation has a paradox. It is grueling, yet eminently satisfying, uplifting, and mind-opening.
-An adolescent with a strong personal with the higher power.
-Authentic spirituality requires reflection and the development of a road back to transcendence through the cultivation of our inner life, through prayer, meditation or perhaps good works, intertwined with our general capacities of cognition, morality, and emotion.
-You are never mistaken for supporting a child's spiritual self.
-The difficult lies not in solving problems but in expressing them.
-All she had to do to support his daughter was to pay attention.
-The precious opportunity before you is that you child is giving you an opening and saying: Hey, come with me. You don't need to know where you are going, or how you are going to get there, you are simply asked to go with her. Our children look to us, but not really for the answers. We're being asked to show up. We need to show up, but we don't need to have all the answers.
The Spiritual Child by Lisa Millar. Quotes.
-Sometimes in difficult family moments or a crisis, children display wisdom and understanding far more on point than the surrounding aggravated or bereaved adults.
-Spirituality is the central organizing principle of inner life in the second decade, boosting teens into an adulthood of meaning and purpose, thriving and awareness.
-The universal developmental surge in adolescence, previously viewed as a fraught passage toward physical and emotional maturity, is now understood more fully to also be a journey of essential spiritual search and growth.
-Now more than ever, in a culture where often enormous amounts of money, empty fame, and cynicism have become toxic dominant values, our children need us to their quest for a spiritually grounded life at every age, and to discover or strengthen our own.
-Optimism was shown to be teachable, not just inborn.
-Our children have an inborn spirituality that is the greatest source of resilience they have as human beings.
-Fulfillment in life is found in meaning and purpose, in spiritual bearings, and not in a better computer, a nicer car, the latest cell phone, or more money.
-Scientists can make the numbers say anything they want.
-The important question for a parent to consider is: Might I offer my child something relevant and beneficial, even if it is not something familiar to me?
-Spirituality is the central organizing principle of inner life in the second decade, boosting teens into an adulthood of meaning and purpose, thriving and awareness.
-The universal developmental surge in adolescence, previously viewed as a fraught passage toward physical and emotional maturity, is now understood more fully to also be a journey of essential spiritual search and growth.
-Now more than ever, in a culture where often enormous amounts of money, empty fame, and cynicism have become toxic dominant values, our children need us to their quest for a spiritually grounded life at every age, and to discover or strengthen our own.
-Optimism was shown to be teachable, not just inborn.
-Our children have an inborn spirituality that is the greatest source of resilience they have as human beings.
-Fulfillment in life is found in meaning and purpose, in spiritual bearings, and not in a better computer, a nicer car, the latest cell phone, or more money.
-Scientists can make the numbers say anything they want.
-The important question for a parent to consider is: Might I offer my child something relevant and beneficial, even if it is not something familiar to me?
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Simon Sinek. Things I wish I knew when I was younger
1. Focus on the bagel.
2. This is exciting. I am not nervous, I am excited. Nervousness vs. excitement.
3. The highest performing teams are those who give to each other selflessly.
4. Practice to speak the last in your team. Make people feel heard.
5. Fulfillment is the opportunity to serve those who serve others.
6. The ceramic cup was never meant for me. It was meant for the position that I held. We all always deserve the Styrofoam cup.
2. This is exciting. I am not nervous, I am excited. Nervousness vs. excitement.
3. The highest performing teams are those who give to each other selflessly.
4. Practice to speak the last in your team. Make people feel heard.
5. Fulfillment is the opportunity to serve those who serve others.
6. The ceramic cup was never meant for me. It was meant for the position that I held. We all always deserve the Styrofoam cup.
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Saturday, July 20, 2019
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Your words hold a miracle by John Osteen. Quotes III
-Because You are my shepherd, Lord Jesus, I boldly say, I do not want! I do not lack. I do not have a care or any anxiety.
-I am not afraid because everything that comes to me must pass You first. You know everything because You are in front of me, leading me all the way.
-Wherever I go I can sense your divine presence, the divine influence of your spirit upon my life.
-In the midst of all the storms of life, all the confusion of life, all the turbulence of life, and all the troubles of life, I am abiding under the shadow of the Almighty.
-I will not have a negative confession and talk about my trouble, my sorrow, and all the things I do not understand. I will say what God's words say, I boldly confess that the Lord is my refuge and my fortress. The Lord is my God; in Him, will I trust.
-I am not afraid! I boldly declare it. I believe it in my heart and speak it with my mouth. All fear has to leave me.
-Now, the enemy is going to tell me that I am going to fall, my family is going to be destroyed, and tragedy is going to come.
-Father, your angels accompany me, defend me, and preserve me.
-Start stepping up to the dinner table and enjoying his blessings. You don't have to live in guilt and condemnation any longer; you don't have to go through life full of fear and worry.
-You are my light and my salvation. Who shall I fear?
-I am not dismayed because the Lord my God is with me wherever I go.
-To live your best life now requires that you believe you are a victor and not a victim.
-Many of us have already received the good things that god has given.
-Did you know that you can lose your blessings by ignorance as well as sin? My people are destroyed by a lack of knowledge.
-You are not going to keep your blessings, and you are not going to keep all the good things of God if you get passive.
-Don't give the enemy one thing God has given you.
-If you begin to change what you say, you will lose it.
-Say what God says about you.
-When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
-I am not afraid because everything that comes to me must pass You first. You know everything because You are in front of me, leading me all the way.
-Wherever I go I can sense your divine presence, the divine influence of your spirit upon my life.
-In the midst of all the storms of life, all the confusion of life, all the turbulence of life, and all the troubles of life, I am abiding under the shadow of the Almighty.
-I will not have a negative confession and talk about my trouble, my sorrow, and all the things I do not understand. I will say what God's words say, I boldly confess that the Lord is my refuge and my fortress. The Lord is my God; in Him, will I trust.
-I am not afraid! I boldly declare it. I believe it in my heart and speak it with my mouth. All fear has to leave me.
-Now, the enemy is going to tell me that I am going to fall, my family is going to be destroyed, and tragedy is going to come.
-Father, your angels accompany me, defend me, and preserve me.
-Start stepping up to the dinner table and enjoying his blessings. You don't have to live in guilt and condemnation any longer; you don't have to go through life full of fear and worry.
-You are my light and my salvation. Who shall I fear?
-I am not dismayed because the Lord my God is with me wherever I go.
-To live your best life now requires that you believe you are a victor and not a victim.
-Many of us have already received the good things that god has given.
-Did you know that you can lose your blessings by ignorance as well as sin? My people are destroyed by a lack of knowledge.
-You are not going to keep your blessings, and you are not going to keep all the good things of God if you get passive.
-Don't give the enemy one thing God has given you.
-If you begin to change what you say, you will lose it.
-Say what God says about you.
-When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Your words hold a miracle by John Osteen. Quotes II
-David chose to focus on the greatness of God.
-His spirit will take us beyond believing into knowing.
-Why are we sitting here until we die? Rise up!
-When they acted, God did something for them.
-You are born of God.
-Christ died four our sins.
-I am the light of the world. He put a light on the inside of us.
-God is not interested in what church we attend. He simply requires that we accept His Son as Savior.
-Because God is in you, you have overcome.
-You are not in the battle alone.
-God loves us with an everlasting love.
-What you continue to believe in your heart and say with your mouth will come to pass in your life.
-Stop talking to God about how big your mountains are, and starting talking to your mountains how big your God is.
-God encourages us in his Word to be strong and very courageous.
-When you say something often enough, with enthusiasm and passion, before long your subconscious mind begins to act on what you are saying, doing whatever is necessary to bring those thoughts and words to pass.
-I will not live a withered life. My life is filled with life and strength and the power of the Holy Spirit.
-His spirit will take us beyond believing into knowing.
-Why are we sitting here until we die? Rise up!
-When they acted, God did something for them.
-You are born of God.
-Christ died four our sins.
-I am the light of the world. He put a light on the inside of us.
-God is not interested in what church we attend. He simply requires that we accept His Son as Savior.
-Because God is in you, you have overcome.
-You are not in the battle alone.
-God loves us with an everlasting love.
-What you continue to believe in your heart and say with your mouth will come to pass in your life.
-Stop talking to God about how big your mountains are, and starting talking to your mountains how big your God is.
-God encourages us in his Word to be strong and very courageous.
-When you say something often enough, with enthusiasm and passion, before long your subconscious mind begins to act on what you are saying, doing whatever is necessary to bring those thoughts and words to pass.
-I will not live a withered life. My life is filled with life and strength and the power of the Holy Spirit.
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Your words hold a miracle by John Osteen. Quotes
-You can change your world by changing your words.
-God has left to us the responsibility of enforcing the victory that Jesus won on the cross.
-If you want to change, you must first change your thoughts.
-You've got to quit dwelling on the negative. Don't magnify your problems. Magnify your God.
-God will not do the work for us. He wants us to develop ourselves spiritually.
-When we take the time to hear the word of God, that word will produce in us a steady growth of faith.
-Stop speaking the sound of fear. Stop speaking the sound of depression. Stop speaking the sound of depression. Stop speaking the sound of sickness and defeat. Stop speaking of lack of uncertainty.
-Your words are important. You can create hell on earth or heaven on earth with your words.
-Whether we speak positive or negative words, we will reap exactly what we sow.
-Use your words to change your negative situations and fill them with life.
-The things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
-There are a lot of things you are not going to understand with your mind. It is through faith you understand.
-Faith is a way of life.
-The only Word that will do you any good is that Word you act upon.
-The Word of God that is written in the Bible is just as powerful and true as if Jesus stood before you and spoke you the Word.
-Why don't you go ahead and pour that foundation? Every journey begins with one step.
-Start doing a little bit of what you cannot do.
-We should say about ourselves what God says.
-Confess the Word of God instead of negative things.
-God has left to us the responsibility of enforcing the victory that Jesus won on the cross.
-If you want to change, you must first change your thoughts.
-You've got to quit dwelling on the negative. Don't magnify your problems. Magnify your God.
-God will not do the work for us. He wants us to develop ourselves spiritually.
-When we take the time to hear the word of God, that word will produce in us a steady growth of faith.
-Stop speaking the sound of fear. Stop speaking the sound of depression. Stop speaking the sound of depression. Stop speaking the sound of sickness and defeat. Stop speaking of lack of uncertainty.
-Your words are important. You can create hell on earth or heaven on earth with your words.
-Whether we speak positive or negative words, we will reap exactly what we sow.
-Use your words to change your negative situations and fill them with life.
-The things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
-There are a lot of things you are not going to understand with your mind. It is through faith you understand.
-Faith is a way of life.
-The only Word that will do you any good is that Word you act upon.
-The Word of God that is written in the Bible is just as powerful and true as if Jesus stood before you and spoke you the Word.
-Why don't you go ahead and pour that foundation? Every journey begins with one step.
-Start doing a little bit of what you cannot do.
-We should say about ourselves what God says.
-Confess the Word of God instead of negative things.
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Friday, June 21, 2019
Finding flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Quotes X
-If the only effects of our actions were the ones we could observe in this life, common sense would dictate that we get as much pleasure and material advantage as we can, even if we must ruthless in the process.
-Each one of us is responsible for one particular point in space and time in which our body and mind forms a link within the total network of existence.
-We can focus consciousness on the tasks of everyday life in the knowledge that when we act in the fullness of the flow experience, we are also building a bridge to the future of our universe.
-Each one of us is responsible for one particular point in space and time in which our body and mind forms a link within the total network of existence.
-We can focus consciousness on the tasks of everyday life in the knowledge that when we act in the fullness of the flow experience, we are also building a bridge to the future of our universe.
Finding flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Quotes IX
-Our lives will live a mark on the universe.
-One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.
-Individualism and materialism have almost completely prevailed over allegiance to the community and to spiritual values.
-More and more, we seem to bury our heads in the sand to avoid hearing bad news, withdrawing into gated communities protected by armed response. But a good personal life is impossible without staying aloof of a corrupt society, as Socrates knew and those who have lived under recent dictatorships have found out. It would be so much easier if we were responsible only for ourselves. Unfortunately, things don't work that way. An active responsibility for the rest of humankind and for the world of which we are a part, is a necessary ingredient of a good life.
-Act always as if the future of the Universe depended on what you did, while laughing at yourself for thinking that whatever you do makes any difference.
-It is this serious playfulness, this combination of concern and humility that makes it possible to be both engaged and carefree at the same time.
-If a man develops a self-image based on power, or wealth, there are no limits to his exertions. He will pursue the goal set by the self relentlessly, even if he has to ruin his health in the process, even if he has to destroy other people along the way.
-It is possible then to separate those needs that really help us to navigate through life, from those malignant growths that sprout from them and make our lives miserable.
-Once we realize what our demons are, we need not fear them any longer. Instead of taking them seriously, we can smile with compassion at the arrogance of these fruits of our imagination. We don't have to feed their ravenous hunger except on our own terms, when to do so helps us achieve something worthwhile.
-A simple way of improving the quality of life is to take ownership of one's actions.
-Many people spend their entire lives feeling like puppets who move only because their strings are pulled. Under these conditions we are likely to feel that our psychic is wasted. So the question is why don't we want to do more things? The sheer act of wanting focuses attention, establishes priority in consciousness, and thus creates a sense of inner harmony.
-Nor merely bear what is necessary, but love it.
-The quality of life is much improved if we learn to love what we have to do.
-In creating a good life, it is not enough to strive for enjoyable goals, but also to choose goals that will reduce the sum total of entropy in the world.
-One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.
-Individualism and materialism have almost completely prevailed over allegiance to the community and to spiritual values.
-More and more, we seem to bury our heads in the sand to avoid hearing bad news, withdrawing into gated communities protected by armed response. But a good personal life is impossible without staying aloof of a corrupt society, as Socrates knew and those who have lived under recent dictatorships have found out. It would be so much easier if we were responsible only for ourselves. Unfortunately, things don't work that way. An active responsibility for the rest of humankind and for the world of which we are a part, is a necessary ingredient of a good life.
-Act always as if the future of the Universe depended on what you did, while laughing at yourself for thinking that whatever you do makes any difference.
-It is this serious playfulness, this combination of concern and humility that makes it possible to be both engaged and carefree at the same time.
-If a man develops a self-image based on power, or wealth, there are no limits to his exertions. He will pursue the goal set by the self relentlessly, even if he has to ruin his health in the process, even if he has to destroy other people along the way.
-It is possible then to separate those needs that really help us to navigate through life, from those malignant growths that sprout from them and make our lives miserable.
-Once we realize what our demons are, we need not fear them any longer. Instead of taking them seriously, we can smile with compassion at the arrogance of these fruits of our imagination. We don't have to feed their ravenous hunger except on our own terms, when to do so helps us achieve something worthwhile.
-A simple way of improving the quality of life is to take ownership of one's actions.
-Many people spend their entire lives feeling like puppets who move only because their strings are pulled. Under these conditions we are likely to feel that our psychic is wasted. So the question is why don't we want to do more things? The sheer act of wanting focuses attention, establishes priority in consciousness, and thus creates a sense of inner harmony.
-Nor merely bear what is necessary, but love it.
-The quality of life is much improved if we learn to love what we have to do.
-In creating a good life, it is not enough to strive for enjoyable goals, but also to choose goals that will reduce the sum total of entropy in the world.
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Finding flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Quotes VIII
-When we are able to confront life with such involvement and enthusiasm, we can be said to have achieved an autotelic personality.
-There is a gradation, ranging from individuals who almost never feel that what they do is worth doing for its own sake, to others who feel that most anything they do is important and valuable in its own right. It is to this latter individuals that the term autotelic applies.
-An autotelic person needs few material possessions and little entertainment, comfort, power, or fame because so much of what he or she does is already rewarding. Because such persons experience flow in work, in family life, when interacting with people, when eating, and even when alone with nothing to do, they are less dependent on the external rewards that keep others motivated to go on a life composed of dull and meaningless routines. They are more autonomous and independent, because they cannot be as easily manipulated with threats or rewards from the outside. At the same time, they are more involved with everything around them because they are fully immersed in the current of life.
-An important dimension of it means to be autotelic is what one does with one's time.
-An autotelic person is often in challenging situations.
-Self-reported happiness is not a very good indicator of the quality of a person's life.
-It is not enough to be happy to have an excellent life. The point is to be happy while doing things that stretch our skills, that help us grow and fulfill our potential.
-If there is one quality that distinguishes autotelic individuals, it is that their psychic energy seems inexhaustible.
-Autotelic persons are less concerned with themselves, and therefore have more free psychic energy to experience life with.
-Creative individuals are usually autotelic as well, and they often achieve their breakthroughs because they have surplus psychic energy to invest in apparently trivial objects.
-I don't care what kind of problem it is. If I can solve it, it is fun. It is really a lot of fun to solve problems, isn't it? Isn't it that what's interesting in life?
-PAULING. What starting him on a long and productive life was a determination to participate as fully as possible in the life around him.
-Every morning you wake up and it's like the dawn of creation.
-Without disinterested interest life is uninteresting.
-Time is what one must find in order to develop interest and curiosity to enjoy life for its own sake.
-As one focuses on any segment of reality, a potentially infinite range of opportunities for action is revealed for our skills to engage with. There is never a good excuse for being bored.
-Those who survive are able to ignore selectively the external conditions, and to redirect their attention to an inner life that is real only to themselves.
-One needs to learn to control attention.
-There is a gradation, ranging from individuals who almost never feel that what they do is worth doing for its own sake, to others who feel that most anything they do is important and valuable in its own right. It is to this latter individuals that the term autotelic applies.
-An autotelic person needs few material possessions and little entertainment, comfort, power, or fame because so much of what he or she does is already rewarding. Because such persons experience flow in work, in family life, when interacting with people, when eating, and even when alone with nothing to do, they are less dependent on the external rewards that keep others motivated to go on a life composed of dull and meaningless routines. They are more autonomous and independent, because they cannot be as easily manipulated with threats or rewards from the outside. At the same time, they are more involved with everything around them because they are fully immersed in the current of life.
-An important dimension of it means to be autotelic is what one does with one's time.
-An autotelic person is often in challenging situations.
-Self-reported happiness is not a very good indicator of the quality of a person's life.
-It is not enough to be happy to have an excellent life. The point is to be happy while doing things that stretch our skills, that help us grow and fulfill our potential.
-If there is one quality that distinguishes autotelic individuals, it is that their psychic energy seems inexhaustible.
-Autotelic persons are less concerned with themselves, and therefore have more free psychic energy to experience life with.
-Creative individuals are usually autotelic as well, and they often achieve their breakthroughs because they have surplus psychic energy to invest in apparently trivial objects.
-I don't care what kind of problem it is. If I can solve it, it is fun. It is really a lot of fun to solve problems, isn't it? Isn't it that what's interesting in life?
-PAULING. What starting him on a long and productive life was a determination to participate as fully as possible in the life around him.
-Every morning you wake up and it's like the dawn of creation.
-Without disinterested interest life is uninteresting.
-Time is what one must find in order to develop interest and curiosity to enjoy life for its own sake.
-As one focuses on any segment of reality, a potentially infinite range of opportunities for action is revealed for our skills to engage with. There is never a good excuse for being bored.
-Those who survive are able to ignore selectively the external conditions, and to redirect their attention to an inner life that is real only to themselves.
-One needs to learn to control attention.
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Finding flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Quotes VII
-How many people never realize that they can shape their psychic energy so as to get the most out of experience?
-There are so many examples of individuals who overcame obstacles that the belief that the quality of life is determined from the outside is hardly tenable.
-Even at ninety years of age, Linus Pauling kept the enthusiasm and curiosity of a young child. Everything he did or said was bubbling with energy.
-Pauling and others who share this type of attitude like to do almost everything. The only thing they definitely don't like is wasting time.
-Because for most of us a job is such a central part of life, it is essential that this activity be as enjoyable and rewarding as possible.
-They are three reasons why jobs are resented:
1. The job is pointless.
2. The job is boring and routine.
3. Jobs are often stressful.
-It is always a better deal to do something one feels good about than something that may make us materially comfortable but emotionally miserable.
-A trivial job can turn into a memorable performance that leaves the world in a better shape than it was before.
-Small adjustments can turn a routine job one dreads into a professional performance one can look forward to with anticipation each morning.
-Stress is detrimental to achieving flow.
-Only by exercising control can stress be avoided.
-Besides work, the other major area that impacts on the quality of life is the kind of relationships we have.
-Conversation is more important to marriage than sex.
-When people pay attention to each other, or to the same activity together, the chances of flow binding the family increases.
-Only when there is harmony between the goals of the participants, when everyone is investing energy into a joint goal, does being together become enjoyable.
-It is sad to see how often people ruin a relationship because they refuse to recognize that they could serve their own interests best by helping others achieve theirs.
-If top management is filled with greedy egotists the company will eventually suffer for it.
-There are so many examples of individuals who overcame obstacles that the belief that the quality of life is determined from the outside is hardly tenable.
-Even at ninety years of age, Linus Pauling kept the enthusiasm and curiosity of a young child. Everything he did or said was bubbling with energy.
-Pauling and others who share this type of attitude like to do almost everything. The only thing they definitely don't like is wasting time.
-Because for most of us a job is such a central part of life, it is essential that this activity be as enjoyable and rewarding as possible.
-They are three reasons why jobs are resented:
1. The job is pointless.
2. The job is boring and routine.
3. Jobs are often stressful.
-It is always a better deal to do something one feels good about than something that may make us materially comfortable but emotionally miserable.
-A trivial job can turn into a memorable performance that leaves the world in a better shape than it was before.
-Small adjustments can turn a routine job one dreads into a professional performance one can look forward to with anticipation each morning.
-Stress is detrimental to achieving flow.
-Only by exercising control can stress be avoided.
-Besides work, the other major area that impacts on the quality of life is the kind of relationships we have.
-Conversation is more important to marriage than sex.
-When people pay attention to each other, or to the same activity together, the chances of flow binding the family increases.
-Only when there is harmony between the goals of the participants, when everyone is investing energy into a joint goal, does being together become enjoyable.
-It is sad to see how often people ruin a relationship because they refuse to recognize that they could serve their own interests best by helping others achieve theirs.
-If top management is filled with greedy egotists the company will eventually suffer for it.
Finding flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Quotes VI
-What matters is the dosage.
-As the patterns turn into habits, they begin to have definite effects on the quality of life as a whole.
-The phrase "bread and circuses" to keep the populace contended during the long centuries of Roman Empire's decline.
-A society begins to rely heavily on leisure only when it has become incapable of offering meaningful productive occupation to its members.
-There are individuals who, confronted with the sterility of their jobs, escape productive responsibilities altogether to pursue a life of flow in leisure.
-If a society becomes too dependent on entertainment, it is likely that there will be less psychic energy left to cope creatively with the technological and economic challenges that will inevitably arise.
-If one's job is beyond redemption, the other solution is to make sure that free time at least will be a real opportunity for flow, for exploring the potential of the self and the environment. Luckily, the world is absolutely full of interesting things to do. Only lack of imagination, or lack of energy, stand in the way. Otherwise each of us could be a poet, or a musician, an inventor, or explorer, an amateur scholar, scientist, artist, or collector.
-A relationship that leads to order in consciousness instead of psychic entropy, has to meet at least two conditions: to find some compatibility between our goals and those of the other person; and being willing to invest attention in the other person's goals.
-Lack of true friends is often the main complaint of people confronting an emotional crisis in the second half of life.
-What can one do? As with other aspects of life, the important thing is to decide for oneself.
-There are more arguments in families that are emotionally close; when the family is in real trouble, parents and children avoid each other instead of arguing.
-The moods of the father affect the moods of the rest of the family, and the children's moods affect the mother, but the mother's moods have little discernible effect on the rest of the family.
-Rules and discipline are needed to avoid excessive waste of psychic energy in the negotiation of what can or cannot be done.
-It is possible to learn to like solitude, but it doesn't come easily.
-One can learn more about true preferences by listening to what people say others want, rather than to what they claim they want themselves.
-While we are repelled by differences, we are also fascinated by the strange and the exotic.
-Ideal communities, like ideal families, may never have really existed.
-Extroverts who are thought to be born not to be made, get a better deal in life all around.
-It is possible to be both extroverted and introverted at the same time.
-As the patterns turn into habits, they begin to have definite effects on the quality of life as a whole.
-The phrase "bread and circuses" to keep the populace contended during the long centuries of Roman Empire's decline.
-A society begins to rely heavily on leisure only when it has become incapable of offering meaningful productive occupation to its members.
-There are individuals who, confronted with the sterility of their jobs, escape productive responsibilities altogether to pursue a life of flow in leisure.
-If a society becomes too dependent on entertainment, it is likely that there will be less psychic energy left to cope creatively with the technological and economic challenges that will inevitably arise.
-If one's job is beyond redemption, the other solution is to make sure that free time at least will be a real opportunity for flow, for exploring the potential of the self and the environment. Luckily, the world is absolutely full of interesting things to do. Only lack of imagination, or lack of energy, stand in the way. Otherwise each of us could be a poet, or a musician, an inventor, or explorer, an amateur scholar, scientist, artist, or collector.
-A relationship that leads to order in consciousness instead of psychic entropy, has to meet at least two conditions: to find some compatibility between our goals and those of the other person; and being willing to invest attention in the other person's goals.
-Lack of true friends is often the main complaint of people confronting an emotional crisis in the second half of life.
-What can one do? As with other aspects of life, the important thing is to decide for oneself.
-There are more arguments in families that are emotionally close; when the family is in real trouble, parents and children avoid each other instead of arguing.
-The moods of the father affect the moods of the rest of the family, and the children's moods affect the mother, but the mother's moods have little discernible effect on the rest of the family.
-Rules and discipline are needed to avoid excessive waste of psychic energy in the negotiation of what can or cannot be done.
-It is possible to learn to like solitude, but it doesn't come easily.
-One can learn more about true preferences by listening to what people say others want, rather than to what they claim they want themselves.
-While we are repelled by differences, we are also fascinated by the strange and the exotic.
-Ideal communities, like ideal families, may never have really existed.
-Extroverts who are thought to be born not to be made, get a better deal in life all around.
-It is possible to be both extroverted and introverted at the same time.
Monday, June 17, 2019
Finding flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Quotes V
-I don't think I ever sat down and ask myself, now what am I going to do in life? I just went ahead doing what I liked to do.
-It is not the external conditions that determine how much work will contribute to the excellence of one's life. It is how one works and what experiences one is able to derive from confronting its challenges.
-What accomplishments in life they were most proud of. I suppose it is just to have raised six kids, and brought them up.
-The best investment he ever made was the year he took off from his successful career to spend with his children as they were growing up.
-Having leisure does not improve the quality of life unless one knows how to use it effectively.
-Physical health is better when a person focuses on a goal. On weekends, when alone, and with nothing to do, people report more symptoms of illness.
-Without necessarily being aware of it. one will seek out stimulation that will screen out the sources of anxiety from consciousness.This might be watching TV, or reading redundant narratives, such as romances or mysteries. These are quick ways to reduce chaos in consciousness in the short run, but usually the only residue they leave behind is a feeling of listless dissatisfaction.
-Few people have learned to structure their psychic energy autonomously, from the inside.
-Human beings feel best in flow, when they are fully involved in meeting a challenge, solving a problem, discovering something new.
-Free time with nothing specific to engage one's attention provides the opposite of flow: psychic entropy, where one feels listless and apathetic.
-Why would we spend four times more time doing something that has less than half the chance of making us feel good? To get organized for a basketball game takes time: one has to change clothes, make arrangements. Each of the flow-producing activities requires an initial investment of attention before it begins to be enjoyable. One needs such disposable activation energy.
-If a person lacks the discipline to overcome that initial obstacle, he will have to settle for something that, although less enjoyable, is more accessible. This is where passive leisure activities come in.
-It is not the external conditions that determine how much work will contribute to the excellence of one's life. It is how one works and what experiences one is able to derive from confronting its challenges.
-What accomplishments in life they were most proud of. I suppose it is just to have raised six kids, and brought them up.
-The best investment he ever made was the year he took off from his successful career to spend with his children as they were growing up.
-Having leisure does not improve the quality of life unless one knows how to use it effectively.
-Physical health is better when a person focuses on a goal. On weekends, when alone, and with nothing to do, people report more symptoms of illness.
-Without necessarily being aware of it. one will seek out stimulation that will screen out the sources of anxiety from consciousness.This might be watching TV, or reading redundant narratives, such as romances or mysteries. These are quick ways to reduce chaos in consciousness in the short run, but usually the only residue they leave behind is a feeling of listless dissatisfaction.
-Few people have learned to structure their psychic energy autonomously, from the inside.
-Human beings feel best in flow, when they are fully involved in meeting a challenge, solving a problem, discovering something new.
-Free time with nothing specific to engage one's attention provides the opposite of flow: psychic entropy, where one feels listless and apathetic.
-Why would we spend four times more time doing something that has less than half the chance of making us feel good? To get organized for a basketball game takes time: one has to change clothes, make arrangements. Each of the flow-producing activities requires an initial investment of attention before it begins to be enjoyable. One needs such disposable activation energy.
-If a person lacks the discipline to overcome that initial obstacle, he will have to settle for something that, although less enjoyable, is more accessible. This is where passive leisure activities come in.
Sunday, June 16, 2019
Finding flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Quotes IV
-Work generally takes up a third of the time available for living.
-Those who like their work lead richer lives.
-Children from an early age participated in their parents' work, and gradually found themselves performing as productive adults without missing a beat along the way.
-Exposure to productive tasks in the home, the neighborhood, and the community is much greater for children who grow up in wealthy and stable environments.
-In the US, almost nine out of ten teenagers are employed sometime during high school, a much higher proportion than in other technologically advanced countries, where parents prefer their children to spend as much time as possible studying, rather than being distracted by jobs irrelevant to their future careers.
-A person who grows up experiencing most of the day as neither important nor enjoyable is unlikely to find much meaning in the future.
-The attitudes set in the early years continue to color how we experience work during the rest of our lives.
-Without the goal and the challenges usually provided by a job, only a rare self-discipline can keep the mind focused intensely enough to insure a meaningful life.
-The quality of experience at work is generally more positive than one would expect. Nevertheless, if we had the chance, we would like to work less. Two major reasons seem to be involved: the objective conditions of work since those who pay another person's wages, are not particularly concerned with the well-being of their employees; and the subjective attitudes towards work.
-The intrinsic rewards of work are easiest to see in the highly individualized professions, where a person is free to choose his or her goals and set the difficulty of the task.
-"You could say that I worked every minute of my life, or that I never work a day"
-Those who like their work lead richer lives.
-Children from an early age participated in their parents' work, and gradually found themselves performing as productive adults without missing a beat along the way.
-Exposure to productive tasks in the home, the neighborhood, and the community is much greater for children who grow up in wealthy and stable environments.
-In the US, almost nine out of ten teenagers are employed sometime during high school, a much higher proportion than in other technologically advanced countries, where parents prefer their children to spend as much time as possible studying, rather than being distracted by jobs irrelevant to their future careers.
-A person who grows up experiencing most of the day as neither important nor enjoyable is unlikely to find much meaning in the future.
-The attitudes set in the early years continue to color how we experience work during the rest of our lives.
-Without the goal and the challenges usually provided by a job, only a rare self-discipline can keep the mind focused intensely enough to insure a meaningful life.
-The quality of experience at work is generally more positive than one would expect. Nevertheless, if we had the chance, we would like to work less. Two major reasons seem to be involved: the objective conditions of work since those who pay another person's wages, are not particularly concerned with the well-being of their employees; and the subjective attitudes towards work.
-The intrinsic rewards of work are easiest to see in the highly individualized professions, where a person is free to choose his or her goals and set the difficulty of the task.
-"You could say that I worked every minute of my life, or that I never work a day"
Sunday, June 9, 2019
Finding flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Quotes III
-It is the full involvement of flow, rather than happiness, that makes for excellence in life.
-When we are in flow, we are not happy, because to experience happiness we must focus on our inner states, and that would take away attention from the task at hand.
-Only after the task is completed do we have the leisure to look back on what has happened, and the we are flooded with gratitude for the excellence of that experience. Then, in retrospect, we are happy.
-The flow experience acts as a magnet for learning.
-Do you ever get involved in something so deeply that nothing else seems to matter, and you lose track of time?
-Flow is generally reported when a person is doing his or her favorite activity.
-Because almost any activity can produce flow provided the relevant elements are present, it is possible to improve the quality of life by making sure that clear goals, immediate feedback, skills balanced to action opportunities, and the remaining conditions of flow are as much as possible a constant part of everyday life.
-The quality of life depends on what we do in the seventy or so years we are allotted, and on what passes in consciousness during that time.
-Good things in small doses, tend to improve the quality of daily life considerably, but the effects are not additive; a point of diminishing returns is quickly reached.
-When the job presents clear goals, unambiguous feedback, a sense of control, challenges that match the worker's skills, and few distractions, the feelings it provides are not that different from what one experiences in a sport or an artistic performance.
-The first step in improving the quality of life consists in engineering daily activities so that one gets the most rewarding experiences from them.
-Being alone affects most those individuals who have the fewest resources.
-The interactions have many of the characteristics of flow activities, and they certainly require the orderly investment of psychic energy. By contrast, when we are alone with nothing to do there is no reason to concentrate, and what happens then is that the mind begins to unravel, and soon finds something to worry about.
-A more difficult, but in the long run even more useful, skill to acquire is the ability to tolerate solitude, and to even enjoy it.
-Locations also have an effect on the quality of experience.
-For many families, the car has also become the location for togetherness. At home parents and children are often dispersed in different rooms, doing different things, when on an outing in the car, they talk, sing, or play games together.
-The environment in which one lives affects one's mind.
-It is not the external conditions that count, but what we make of them.
-The excellence of daily life finally depends not on what we do, but on how we do it.
-It is important to reflect on the effects that the daily environment, the places, people, activities, and times of the day, has on us.
-There is no law that says we have to experience life in the same way. What is vital is to find out what works out best in your case.
-When we are in flow, we are not happy, because to experience happiness we must focus on our inner states, and that would take away attention from the task at hand.
-Only after the task is completed do we have the leisure to look back on what has happened, and the we are flooded with gratitude for the excellence of that experience. Then, in retrospect, we are happy.
-The flow experience acts as a magnet for learning.
-Do you ever get involved in something so deeply that nothing else seems to matter, and you lose track of time?
-Flow is generally reported when a person is doing his or her favorite activity.
-Because almost any activity can produce flow provided the relevant elements are present, it is possible to improve the quality of life by making sure that clear goals, immediate feedback, skills balanced to action opportunities, and the remaining conditions of flow are as much as possible a constant part of everyday life.
-The quality of life depends on what we do in the seventy or so years we are allotted, and on what passes in consciousness during that time.
-Good things in small doses, tend to improve the quality of daily life considerably, but the effects are not additive; a point of diminishing returns is quickly reached.
-When the job presents clear goals, unambiguous feedback, a sense of control, challenges that match the worker's skills, and few distractions, the feelings it provides are not that different from what one experiences in a sport or an artistic performance.
-The first step in improving the quality of life consists in engineering daily activities so that one gets the most rewarding experiences from them.
-Being alone affects most those individuals who have the fewest resources.
-The interactions have many of the characteristics of flow activities, and they certainly require the orderly investment of psychic energy. By contrast, when we are alone with nothing to do there is no reason to concentrate, and what happens then is that the mind begins to unravel, and soon finds something to worry about.
-A more difficult, but in the long run even more useful, skill to acquire is the ability to tolerate solitude, and to even enjoy it.
-Locations also have an effect on the quality of experience.
-For many families, the car has also become the location for togetherness. At home parents and children are often dispersed in different rooms, doing different things, when on an outing in the car, they talk, sing, or play games together.
-The environment in which one lives affects one's mind.
-It is not the external conditions that count, but what we make of them.
-The excellence of daily life finally depends not on what we do, but on how we do it.
-It is important to reflect on the effects that the daily environment, the places, people, activities, and times of the day, has on us.
-There is no law that says we have to experience life in the same way. What is vital is to find out what works out best in your case.
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Finding flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Quotes II
-Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have.
-Over the years, the content of experience will determine the quality of life.
-One of the most essential decisions any of us can make is about how one's time is allocated or invested.
-What our life is consists in experiences related to work, to keeping things we already have from falling apart, and to whatever else we do in our free time.
-Everyday life is defined not only by what we do, but also by who we are with.
-While what we do day in and day out has a lot to do with what kind of life we have, how we experience what we do is even more important.
-Beyond the threshold of poverty, additional resources do not appreciably improve the chances of being happy.
-When we feel active and strong we are also more likely to feel happy.
-The choice of what we do will also affect our happiness.
-Without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.
-Goals that we pursue will shape and determine the kind of self that we are to become.
-Without a consistent set of goals, it is difficult to develop a coherent self.
-To make sure that we survive in a dangerous world dominated by scarcity, our genes have been programmed us to be greedy, to want power, to dominate over others.
-Most of our goals will be shaped by genetic or by cultural inheritance.
-When a person likes what he does and is motivated to do it, focusing the mind becomes effortless even when the objective difficulties are great.
-Innate talents cannot develop into mature intelligence unless a person learns to control attention.
-Flow experiences to describe the sense of effortless action we feel in moments that stand out as the best in our lives. Moments in which what we feel, what we wish, and what we think are in harmony.
-When high challenges are matched with high skills, then the deep involvement that sets flow apart from ordinary life is likely to occur.
-Flow occurs when challenges and skills are high.
-When goals are clear, feedback relevant, and challenges and skills are in balance, attention becomes ordered and fully invested. Because of the total demand on psychic energy, a person in flow is completely focused. There is no space in consciousness for distracting thoughts, irrelevant feelings.
-When a person's entire being is stretched in the full functioning of body and mind, whatever one does becomes worth doing for its own sake.
-Over the years, the content of experience will determine the quality of life.
-One of the most essential decisions any of us can make is about how one's time is allocated or invested.
-What our life is consists in experiences related to work, to keeping things we already have from falling apart, and to whatever else we do in our free time.
-Everyday life is defined not only by what we do, but also by who we are with.
-While what we do day in and day out has a lot to do with what kind of life we have, how we experience what we do is even more important.
-Beyond the threshold of poverty, additional resources do not appreciably improve the chances of being happy.
-When we feel active and strong we are also more likely to feel happy.
-The choice of what we do will also affect our happiness.
-Without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.
-Goals that we pursue will shape and determine the kind of self that we are to become.
-Without a consistent set of goals, it is difficult to develop a coherent self.
-To make sure that we survive in a dangerous world dominated by scarcity, our genes have been programmed us to be greedy, to want power, to dominate over others.
-Most of our goals will be shaped by genetic or by cultural inheritance.
-When a person likes what he does and is motivated to do it, focusing the mind becomes effortless even when the objective difficulties are great.
-Innate talents cannot develop into mature intelligence unless a person learns to control attention.
-Flow experiences to describe the sense of effortless action we feel in moments that stand out as the best in our lives. Moments in which what we feel, what we wish, and what we think are in harmony.
-When high challenges are matched with high skills, then the deep involvement that sets flow apart from ordinary life is likely to occur.
-Flow occurs when challenges and skills are high.
-When goals are clear, feedback relevant, and challenges and skills are in balance, attention becomes ordered and fully invested. Because of the total demand on psychic energy, a person in flow is completely focused. There is no space in consciousness for distracting thoughts, irrelevant feelings.
-When a person's entire being is stretched in the full functioning of body and mind, whatever one does becomes worth doing for its own sake.
Finding flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Quotes
-Between now and the inevitable end of our lives we can choose either to live or to die.
-To live is by no means something that will happen by itself.
-What does to live mean? It must mean to live in fullness, without waste of time and potential, expressing one's uniqueness, yet participating intimately in the complexity of the cosmos.
-The only path to finding out what life is about is a patient, slow, attempt to make sense of the realities of the past, and the possibilities of the future as they can be understood in the present.
-The best strategy is to assume that these seventy or so years, are our only chance to experience the cosmos, and we should make the fullest use of it.
-The actual quality of life will be determined by our thoughts and emotions, by the interpretations we give to chemical, biological, and social processes.
-To achieve excellence, we must first understand the reality of the everyday, with all its demands and potential frustrations.
-The accident of birth, puts a person in a slot that greatly determines what sorts of experiences his or her life will consist of.
-There is enough room for personal initiative and choice to make a real difference. And those who believe this are the ones with the best chance to break free from the grip of fate.
-To live means to experience.
-To live is by no means something that will happen by itself.
-What does to live mean? It must mean to live in fullness, without waste of time and potential, expressing one's uniqueness, yet participating intimately in the complexity of the cosmos.
-The only path to finding out what life is about is a patient, slow, attempt to make sense of the realities of the past, and the possibilities of the future as they can be understood in the present.
-The best strategy is to assume that these seventy or so years, are our only chance to experience the cosmos, and we should make the fullest use of it.
-The actual quality of life will be determined by our thoughts and emotions, by the interpretations we give to chemical, biological, and social processes.
-To achieve excellence, we must first understand the reality of the everyday, with all its demands and potential frustrations.
-The accident of birth, puts a person in a slot that greatly determines what sorts of experiences his or her life will consist of.
-There is enough room for personal initiative and choice to make a real difference. And those who believe this are the ones with the best chance to break free from the grip of fate.
-To live means to experience.
Friday, May 31, 2019
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Win Forever by Pete Carroll. Quotes VIII
-Being supportive would be crucial. Our always enduring will to be positive and hold on to the belief that something good was just about to happen, no matter how dire the circumstances, would truly prove to be worthwhile.
-I am very lucky that I have a job that I love doing and am so passionate about, but I also realize that I still am a part of a larger world.
-We have the power to create our own reality.
-When it comes to leadership and performance the basic principles are almost universal.
-The discipline comes when you consistently stay in touch with your vision.
-I know myself so well that if I miss my first ten shots, you had better look out, because I know I am going to make my next ten.
-When you truly know yourself, you have the best change of using your strengths to your best advantage.
-Compete to make yourself valuable at whatever you're doing.
-Your first job experiences may not be what you have dreamed about, but there is intrinsic value in a job well done.
-Listen to your heart, trust your intuition, and allow yourself to be fascinated by the adventure to find the real you.
-Life is never about singular moments because they are never enough to sustain pure happiness.
-Life is about the journey.
-When I am asked about what I will miss the most, it will be the people.
-The beauty of life is that it doesn't stop.
-The first meeting I held included everyone in the organization. I wanted them to know that everyone was an important part of the team.
-I believed that setting the bar extremely high was necessary and appropriate for putting our new program in motion.
-Games were determined not by how you start, but how you finish.
-We have the power to direct and redirect our lives and the opportunities that surround us, but first we have to acknowledge the power that resides in our thoughts and visions.
-I am very lucky that I have a job that I love doing and am so passionate about, but I also realize that I still am a part of a larger world.
-We have the power to create our own reality.
-When it comes to leadership and performance the basic principles are almost universal.
-The discipline comes when you consistently stay in touch with your vision.
-I know myself so well that if I miss my first ten shots, you had better look out, because I know I am going to make my next ten.
-When you truly know yourself, you have the best change of using your strengths to your best advantage.
-Compete to make yourself valuable at whatever you're doing.
-Your first job experiences may not be what you have dreamed about, but there is intrinsic value in a job well done.
-Listen to your heart, trust your intuition, and allow yourself to be fascinated by the adventure to find the real you.
-Life is never about singular moments because they are never enough to sustain pure happiness.
-Life is about the journey.
-When I am asked about what I will miss the most, it will be the people.
-The beauty of life is that it doesn't stop.
-The first meeting I held included everyone in the organization. I wanted them to know that everyone was an important part of the team.
-I believed that setting the bar extremely high was necessary and appropriate for putting our new program in motion.
-Games were determined not by how you start, but how you finish.
-We have the power to direct and redirect our lives and the opportunities that surround us, but first we have to acknowledge the power that resides in our thoughts and visions.
Win Forever by Pete Carroll. Quotes VII
-I am always looking for the fun in everything I do.
-The idea is to keep them fascinated with what's going on, so they keep coming back.
-To effectively handle major swings of emotion in a game is a skill that will allow a player to perform at this best.
-Our players were loose and relaxed.
-Our guys knew that the only thing left to do was go out and perform like they have been prepared to do. And that is exactly what happened.
-A head coach's primary objective is to orchestrate the overall mentality of his team.
-The greatest detractor from high performance is fear. If you can eliminate that fear through hard work and preparation you will put yourself in an incredible position to take on the challenges you face.
-Those setbacks, challenges and hardships have been learning experiences.
-When you have gotten to a place where you are as ready to embrace the learning opportunities given to you by the games you lose as to embrace the ones given to you by the games you win, then you are ready for all the potential outcomes.
-The only comparison that matters is yourself.
-If you create a vision for yourself and stick with it, you can make amazing things happen in your life.
-What you expect is usually what you get.
-The power of visioning. You can create whatever you envision as long as you are willing to always compete and stay on course with you objective.
-The idea is to keep them fascinated with what's going on, so they keep coming back.
-To effectively handle major swings of emotion in a game is a skill that will allow a player to perform at this best.
-Our players were loose and relaxed.
-Our guys knew that the only thing left to do was go out and perform like they have been prepared to do. And that is exactly what happened.
-A head coach's primary objective is to orchestrate the overall mentality of his team.
-The greatest detractor from high performance is fear. If you can eliminate that fear through hard work and preparation you will put yourself in an incredible position to take on the challenges you face.
-Those setbacks, challenges and hardships have been learning experiences.
-When you have gotten to a place where you are as ready to embrace the learning opportunities given to you by the games you lose as to embrace the ones given to you by the games you win, then you are ready for all the potential outcomes.
-The only comparison that matters is yourself.
-If you create a vision for yourself and stick with it, you can make amazing things happen in your life.
-What you expect is usually what you get.
-The power of visioning. You can create whatever you envision as long as you are willing to always compete and stay on course with you objective.
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Win Forever by Pete Carroll. Quotes VI
-What actually occurred was a result of our preparation, which allowed every player to perform brilliantly under the most pressure-filled situation imaginable.
-Practice is everything.
-In my nine years at USC we had freshmen starting at every position, including quarterback.
-We conveyed our expectation that every incoming player had the chance to start in this first year.
-We discovered that by setting these high expectations and using supporting, consistent language, we could enable a freshman to contribute immediately.
-We didn't promise trophies, titles, or even that they would start, much less play. As coaches, we would create opportunities for them to show their value and worth to the team and perhaps earn a starting position. What we did promise at USC, and will continue to do so at the Seahawks, it that all players, be they freshmen or rookies, seniors or veterans, would be given an equal opportunity to compete for a spot right away. That wasn't a sales pitch, it was the truth.
-First-year players could help us win.
-The most important things I am looking for are competitive will and love of the game.
-Recruiting was just another way to compete.
-Not every recruit was equipped to handle the best working alongside the best.
-The only way to earn the right to be on the field was by competing for it, and they also knew that we would respond accordingly.
-We were far more wary of setting expectations too low than of setting them to high, and by placing great expectations on our student-athletes, our coaching staff had the belief they could field a championship team year after year.
-Practice is everything.
-In my nine years at USC we had freshmen starting at every position, including quarterback.
-We conveyed our expectation that every incoming player had the chance to start in this first year.
-We discovered that by setting these high expectations and using supporting, consistent language, we could enable a freshman to contribute immediately.
-We didn't promise trophies, titles, or even that they would start, much less play. As coaches, we would create opportunities for them to show their value and worth to the team and perhaps earn a starting position. What we did promise at USC, and will continue to do so at the Seahawks, it that all players, be they freshmen or rookies, seniors or veterans, would be given an equal opportunity to compete for a spot right away. That wasn't a sales pitch, it was the truth.
-First-year players could help us win.
-The most important things I am looking for are competitive will and love of the game.
-Recruiting was just another way to compete.
-Not every recruit was equipped to handle the best working alongside the best.
-The only way to earn the right to be on the field was by competing for it, and they also knew that we would respond accordingly.
-We were far more wary of setting expectations too low than of setting them to high, and by placing great expectations on our student-athletes, our coaching staff had the belief they could field a championship team year after year.
Monday, May 20, 2019
Win Forever by Pete Carroll. Quotes V
-I want our guys to know that we believe in them, and I want to show them how far we will go to stand by them. When I do that, I get it back many times over in the long run.
-Having the freedom to weigh my options was more important to me than money or a sense of security. In Seattle, as at USC, I want everyone to know that we want them to realize their dreams. I want people who will fight for us because they know we'll fight from them.
-We live in a society that celebrates executives, coaches, and other leaders yet doesn't put a very high value on teaching as a profession.
-Leading and teaching go hand in hand.
-A flexible and open communication is an incredibly powerful leadership tool.
-Failure to communicate is unacceptable for a parent, a coach, or a leader.
-Learn your learner.
-The competitive environment we operate in as coaches demands that we be extraordinary teachers.
-We wanted to observe our players in as many situations and scenarios as possible.
-It's a challenge to understand the people you're dealing with so that you can approach them in the most effective possible way. A way that allows them to operate and perform at their very best.
-The best teachers, coaches, and leaders are often the best observers.
-I never want to be cut off from the flow of what's going on and what everybody is thinking.
-This effort to know more about our players is never ending, as our teaching is never ending.
-The greatest competitors of our time own a deep down desire to be the best.
-The details of each day's work are accounted for down to the minute.
-I wanted them to see practice as something to look forward to with excitement and focus. When we did that properly, our practices were as competitive and fiery as any game.
-I wanted to practice at game speed.
-Critique effort first.
-Our goal was for our players to face tougher opposition on our practice field than they would encounter in games.
-Competitive cauldron. Anson Dorrance.
-We kept score during everything.
-Finding the right balance and emphasis is critical for keeping practices fresh and players focused.
-A different theme for each day of the week:
TELL THE TRUTH MONDAY
COMPETITION TUESDAY
TURNOVER WEDNESDAY
NO REPEAT THURSDAY
REVIEW FRIDAY
-Always passionate speaking from the heart.
-Players need to focus no matter what is going on around.
-By making our practices competitive, by making the most of teachable moments, and by creating a stadium-like atmosphere, our players definitely felt more comfortable in real game's situations.
-Having the freedom to weigh my options was more important to me than money or a sense of security. In Seattle, as at USC, I want everyone to know that we want them to realize their dreams. I want people who will fight for us because they know we'll fight from them.
-We live in a society that celebrates executives, coaches, and other leaders yet doesn't put a very high value on teaching as a profession.
-Leading and teaching go hand in hand.
-A flexible and open communication is an incredibly powerful leadership tool.
-Failure to communicate is unacceptable for a parent, a coach, or a leader.
-Learn your learner.
-The competitive environment we operate in as coaches demands that we be extraordinary teachers.
-We wanted to observe our players in as many situations and scenarios as possible.
-It's a challenge to understand the people you're dealing with so that you can approach them in the most effective possible way. A way that allows them to operate and perform at their very best.
-The best teachers, coaches, and leaders are often the best observers.
-I never want to be cut off from the flow of what's going on and what everybody is thinking.
-This effort to know more about our players is never ending, as our teaching is never ending.
-The greatest competitors of our time own a deep down desire to be the best.
-The details of each day's work are accounted for down to the minute.
-I wanted them to see practice as something to look forward to with excitement and focus. When we did that properly, our practices were as competitive and fiery as any game.
-I wanted to practice at game speed.
-Critique effort first.
-Our goal was for our players to face tougher opposition on our practice field than they would encounter in games.
-Competitive cauldron. Anson Dorrance.
-We kept score during everything.
-Finding the right balance and emphasis is critical for keeping practices fresh and players focused.
-A different theme for each day of the week:
TELL THE TRUTH MONDAY
COMPETITION TUESDAY
TURNOVER WEDNESDAY
NO REPEAT THURSDAY
REVIEW FRIDAY
-Always passionate speaking from the heart.
-Players need to focus no matter what is going on around.
-By making our practices competitive, by making the most of teachable moments, and by creating a stadium-like atmosphere, our players definitely felt more comfortable in real game's situations.
Win Forever by Pete Carroll. Quotes IV
-The Win Forever philosophy is not just about maximizing the potential of our players. It is about maximizing the potential of everyone in a program or organization. A big part of my job is creating an environment where this will happen.
-As head coach, I set the vision and the philosophy, but it is the coordinators and other coaches who are charged with implementing it on the ground with the players every day.
-I love to stoke little rivalries between the coaches of various position groups.
-I am constantly making suggestions, but they coach the message in their own ways, in their own voices.
-If I want them to coach to their full potential, I have to not only allow them to be authentically themselves but insist upon it.
-They would have to teach from inside themselves.
-Putting together a staff may be the most important part of any head coach's job, and I have always enjoyed it.
-One person at the top simply can't do everything that needs to be done.
-If a leader is clear and consistent about his philosophy's core values, it frees everyone up to do their best. It frees the top leadership to treat its middle managers in a whole new way.
-When everyone gets to contribute his maximum effort, it is transformative for the whole organization.
-You want to compete with people you can trust to lead and those are my coaches.
-Our efforts to win are based on our ability to control every aspect of our team environment, from energy to focus to camaraderie.
-There is so much more room for personal style and expression than many people realize. Whatever the context, not taking advantage of that may be a huge missed opportunity to involve people on a deeper, more competitive, and ultimately higher-performing level.
-How can an organization expect to maximize its overall potential if its people up and down the ladder don't have the chance to contribute in a way that taps into their ability as individuals?
-Rather than expecting loyalty from my coaches, I found that I got all the loyalty I could ask for by supporting them and advancing their careers.
-Our success depends on every one of us being willing to sacrifice parts of ourselves to the share effort. That only works when we trust one another completely, and once that level of trust is in place, it's worth a lot to keep it there.
-As head coach, I set the vision and the philosophy, but it is the coordinators and other coaches who are charged with implementing it on the ground with the players every day.
-I love to stoke little rivalries between the coaches of various position groups.
-I am constantly making suggestions, but they coach the message in their own ways, in their own voices.
-If I want them to coach to their full potential, I have to not only allow them to be authentically themselves but insist upon it.
-They would have to teach from inside themselves.
-Putting together a staff may be the most important part of any head coach's job, and I have always enjoyed it.
-One person at the top simply can't do everything that needs to be done.
-If a leader is clear and consistent about his philosophy's core values, it frees everyone up to do their best. It frees the top leadership to treat its middle managers in a whole new way.
-When everyone gets to contribute his maximum effort, it is transformative for the whole organization.
-You want to compete with people you can trust to lead and those are my coaches.
-Our efforts to win are based on our ability to control every aspect of our team environment, from energy to focus to camaraderie.
-There is so much more room for personal style and expression than many people realize. Whatever the context, not taking advantage of that may be a huge missed opportunity to involve people on a deeper, more competitive, and ultimately higher-performing level.
-How can an organization expect to maximize its overall potential if its people up and down the ladder don't have the chance to contribute in a way that taps into their ability as individuals?
-Rather than expecting loyalty from my coaches, I found that I got all the loyalty I could ask for by supporting them and advancing their careers.
-Our success depends on every one of us being willing to sacrifice parts of ourselves to the share effort. That only works when we trust one another completely, and once that level of trust is in place, it's worth a lot to keep it there.
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Win forever by Pete Carroll. Quotes III
-Do things better than they have ever been done before.
-Practice is one of the many places where we compete to be the best.
-How we practice defines who we are.
THE ENERGY, THE PASSION IN PRACTICE
-From the moment I got out of the car, I could hear it: whistles, kids, and coaches, all sounding somewhat unlike the practice I'd come from. Here, there was something very different: it was the energy. Despite the fact that both teams clearly had the same gear, the same facilities, and players of comparable ability, this practice and the one I had just come from were two utterly different experiences. From the moment I got out of the car, I sensed this was going to be a better practice.
As I got closer, I could hear coaches speaking in Spanish and English, but the language didn't matter. The players could interpret the passion, energy, and excitement.
These coaches were the source of the difference, and it just blew me away.
-How crucial the energy of the coaches was to create a great practice atmosphere.
-The passion and the excitement that coaches bring to the field will transfer directly to the players and will allow you to create a competitive practice environment.
-We worked to gain confidence and erase fear by practicing for every contingency.
-Every year, as you build your team, there always seems to be a critical moment when things either come together or go south.
-Standing in the middle of our team, I told them that if we remained as tight as we were at that moment, it didn't matter who came over the walls of this great coliseum to challenge us.
-A tradition in spring practice. Every year, on the first day or our monthlong spring practice, we would begin with a team meeting.
-We wanted to maximize our potential and do everything we did better than it had ever been done before. This meant everything, not just as football coaches and players but as human beings.
-Self-talk can be powerful and ultimately can create anticipated outcomes.
-As soon as he stopped doubting himself and began to envision positive outcomes, his natural gifts propelled him to great success.
-Part of teaching players to execute on the field is teaching them to execute off the field as well.
-Practice is one of the many places where we compete to be the best.
-How we practice defines who we are.
THE ENERGY, THE PASSION IN PRACTICE
-From the moment I got out of the car, I could hear it: whistles, kids, and coaches, all sounding somewhat unlike the practice I'd come from. Here, there was something very different: it was the energy. Despite the fact that both teams clearly had the same gear, the same facilities, and players of comparable ability, this practice and the one I had just come from were two utterly different experiences. From the moment I got out of the car, I sensed this was going to be a better practice.
As I got closer, I could hear coaches speaking in Spanish and English, but the language didn't matter. The players could interpret the passion, energy, and excitement.
These coaches were the source of the difference, and it just blew me away.
-How crucial the energy of the coaches was to create a great practice atmosphere.
-The passion and the excitement that coaches bring to the field will transfer directly to the players and will allow you to create a competitive practice environment.
-We worked to gain confidence and erase fear by practicing for every contingency.
-Every year, as you build your team, there always seems to be a critical moment when things either come together or go south.
-Standing in the middle of our team, I told them that if we remained as tight as we were at that moment, it didn't matter who came over the walls of this great coliseum to challenge us.
-A tradition in spring practice. Every year, on the first day or our monthlong spring practice, we would begin with a team meeting.
-We wanted to maximize our potential and do everything we did better than it had ever been done before. This meant everything, not just as football coaches and players but as human beings.
-Self-talk can be powerful and ultimately can create anticipated outcomes.
-As soon as he stopped doubting himself and began to envision positive outcomes, his natural gifts propelled him to great success.
-Part of teaching players to execute on the field is teaching them to execute off the field as well.
Monday, May 13, 2019
Win forever by Pete Carroll. Quotes II
-Contingency planning. Preparation and practice sessions should be designed so that the performer is trained for all potential outcomes and events.
-In all areas, he wanted to have a plan for everything.
-I had learned that they were winners not solely because of their win/loss records but also because of their strict attention to detail, confidence in themselves, and rock solid philosophies.
-Great leaders in sports seem to have a knack for creating defining moments.
-I talked from the inner depths of my being.
-A head coach should be able to hire his own coaching staff if he wants a cohesive unit and also have a strong hand in selecting players. Confidence and trust are vital to a successful organization, and leadership must be supported unconditionally, to the bitter end if necessary.
-If I were ever to find myself in an organization where competition didn't play a central role, then I should immediately recognize that I was in the wrong place.
-The essence of my message about competing has nothing to do with the opponent. My competitive approach is that it's all about us.
-My opponents are the people who offer me the opportunity to succeed.
-In our practices, we always end each day with our best offensive players competing against our best defensive players to create the most competitive situations.
-The beauty of it was that his mentality became a part of the 49ers culture.
-In all areas, he wanted to have a plan for everything.
-I had learned that they were winners not solely because of their win/loss records but also because of their strict attention to detail, confidence in themselves, and rock solid philosophies.
-Great leaders in sports seem to have a knack for creating defining moments.
-I talked from the inner depths of my being.
-A head coach should be able to hire his own coaching staff if he wants a cohesive unit and also have a strong hand in selecting players. Confidence and trust are vital to a successful organization, and leadership must be supported unconditionally, to the bitter end if necessary.
-If I were ever to find myself in an organization where competition didn't play a central role, then I should immediately recognize that I was in the wrong place.
-The essence of my message about competing has nothing to do with the opponent. My competitive approach is that it's all about us.
-My opponents are the people who offer me the opportunity to succeed.
-In our practices, we always end each day with our best offensive players competing against our best defensive players to create the most competitive situations.
-The beauty of it was that his mentality became a part of the 49ers culture.
Win forever by Pete Carroll. Quotes
-I embarked on a process of discovering who I was, not only as a football coach but, more important, as a person.
-One of the keys to success lies in knowing and believing in yourself.
-Something good is just about to happen.
-You are either competing to be the best you can be or you are not.
-Maslow is widely considered to have been the first psychologist to study happy, healthy people.
-The first step to doing great things was affirming the belief that great things are possible.
-The simple act of making thoughtful, affirmative statements about who we are and what we want to achieve can be an incredibly powerful tool for getting the best possible performance out of ourselves.
-In order to be successful, you must have a consistent philosophy.
-The realization that I would need to have a philosophy in order to really maximize my potential was one of the breakthrough moments in my personal education and professional career.
-The essence of the Inner Game is to acquire and maintain a quieted mind.
-When players know that they have mastered the rigors of training, whether on the football field or in the weight room or classroom, then their confidence leads to an unusual focus, free from distractions, doubt, or fear.
-I was freed up because I was not worried about the outcome. Let it happen.
-I went back to the principles of the Inner Game and decided to introduce the players to the concept of creating peak experiences or playing in the zone.
-It was everybody's job to get his mind right by game time. It was their job to first believe.
-That night after the game, like I've done on many occasions, I went back into the stadium. When the crowds are gone, and the only people around are the guys sweeping up, there's a special quiet in the air that speaks to me in a way that nothing else does.
-That's success. Those guys had shown that they had what it took to continue to win year after year, in an almost permanent state of winning.
-One of the keys to success lies in knowing and believing in yourself.
-Something good is just about to happen.
-You are either competing to be the best you can be or you are not.
-Maslow is widely considered to have been the first psychologist to study happy, healthy people.
-The first step to doing great things was affirming the belief that great things are possible.
-The simple act of making thoughtful, affirmative statements about who we are and what we want to achieve can be an incredibly powerful tool for getting the best possible performance out of ourselves.
-In order to be successful, you must have a consistent philosophy.
-The realization that I would need to have a philosophy in order to really maximize my potential was one of the breakthrough moments in my personal education and professional career.
-The essence of the Inner Game is to acquire and maintain a quieted mind.
-When players know that they have mastered the rigors of training, whether on the football field or in the weight room or classroom, then their confidence leads to an unusual focus, free from distractions, doubt, or fear.
-I was freed up because I was not worried about the outcome. Let it happen.
-I went back to the principles of the Inner Game and decided to introduce the players to the concept of creating peak experiences or playing in the zone.
-It was everybody's job to get his mind right by game time. It was their job to first believe.
-That night after the game, like I've done on many occasions, I went back into the stadium. When the crowds are gone, and the only people around are the guys sweeping up, there's a special quiet in the air that speaks to me in a way that nothing else does.
-That's success. Those guys had shown that they had what it took to continue to win year after year, in an almost permanent state of winning.
Sunday, May 5, 2019
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
With love and prayers by F. Jarvis. Quotes XIX
-It is a risk to present yourself to others as you really are. It takes courage. Most people hide behind masks. They are afraid that if people always see them the way they really are, they won't like them. Therefore they always wear a mask. But in my experience people admire the courage of those who don't hide, who make themselves vulnerable, who dare to risk openly revealing themselves, expressing their hopes and their desires.
-Life is tough. It is tough even for the lucky.
-Life doesn't imitate television.
-Real men don't run. They stay and fight.
-One of this school's principal aims is to challenge you now so you will develop the confidence and toughness to face life's future challenges.
-It is precisely at that point when you are under the pressure of conflicting simultaneous demands, or when you are knocked down, face in the dirt, that you discover who you are. In that moment of truth you have to decide whether you are going to cut and run or stay and fight. If you have the courage to stay and fight you will have to dig deep within you to find the strength to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and go on.
-Those who are really strong, who are really tough, don't deny the hurt, they don't pretend there's no pain. They face the hurt and pain and they struggle to get up and to go on.
-It is certainly a long-standing goal of this School to prepare a small group of young men who learn today courageously to face up to life's inevitable demands, setbacks, and injustices and who therefore will have developed the inner strength to be the world's leaders tomorrow.
-Nothing takes as much courage in life, as risking opening ourselves up to others.
-Only those who are strong will risk such vulnerability. Only the truly strong will dare to be tender.
-Every failure, every defeat, every bit of suffering that we experience makes us stronger. Stronger because we become more aware of the sufferings of others must bear.
-My beloved children, now and in the years ahead you will suffer and fail and know despair. My prayer for you is that when you experience such suffering you will dig deep and from your suffering build the spiritual muscle you will need to cope with life's many difficulties, and that in your own suffering you will grow to understand with compassion the suffering of others.
-Life is tough. It is tough even for the lucky.
-Life doesn't imitate television.
-Real men don't run. They stay and fight.
-One of this school's principal aims is to challenge you now so you will develop the confidence and toughness to face life's future challenges.
-It is precisely at that point when you are under the pressure of conflicting simultaneous demands, or when you are knocked down, face in the dirt, that you discover who you are. In that moment of truth you have to decide whether you are going to cut and run or stay and fight. If you have the courage to stay and fight you will have to dig deep within you to find the strength to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and go on.
-Those who are really strong, who are really tough, don't deny the hurt, they don't pretend there's no pain. They face the hurt and pain and they struggle to get up and to go on.
-It is certainly a long-standing goal of this School to prepare a small group of young men who learn today courageously to face up to life's inevitable demands, setbacks, and injustices and who therefore will have developed the inner strength to be the world's leaders tomorrow.
-Nothing takes as much courage in life, as risking opening ourselves up to others.
-Only those who are strong will risk such vulnerability. Only the truly strong will dare to be tender.
-Every failure, every defeat, every bit of suffering that we experience makes us stronger. Stronger because we become more aware of the sufferings of others must bear.
-My beloved children, now and in the years ahead you will suffer and fail and know despair. My prayer for you is that when you experience such suffering you will dig deep and from your suffering build the spiritual muscle you will need to cope with life's many difficulties, and that in your own suffering you will grow to understand with compassion the suffering of others.
With love and prayers by F. Jarvis. Quotes XVIII
-Whatever power a leader has is overshadowed by the cares and responsibilities that go with leadership.
-If a leader has a vision, he cannot simply impose it.
-A leader must constantly, endlessly consult, listen, strive for consensus. Far from getting his own way, he must constantly seek the compromises that will bring people together. Far from getting his own way, a leader is constantly trying to understand the viewpoints of others and to persuade them to consider his own viewpoint.
-Leadership is about vision and courage.
-Leadership sometimes requires taking a lonely stand.
-A true leader has the inner strength to lose in a good cause rather than to win in a bad one.
-Leadership consists of just such tiny, quiet, and unspectacular acts.
-Leadership requires above all, character: the ability to cling to a vision, the patience and endurance to persuade others, a thick hide for criticism and unpopularity, a tolerance for anxiety, and a willingness to lose in a good cause, even a willingness to die for your fellow man in a righteous cause.
-At the heart of leadership is character.
-That's the reason we care most of all not how smart you are, not what a good athlete or musician or whatever you are, but what kind of person you are.
-Principle, not popularity, motivated Churchill to stand up to Hitler.
-Some adults who work with young people have a desperate need to be popular, to tell kids what they want to hear.
-Preemptive capitulation.
-Every age is an age of change in which people challenge the traditional values.
-The survival of civilization in every generation depends on a few institutions and individuals, depends on a small minority of people dedicated to working for the public good.
-These are the values we hold: honesty, simplicity, respect and concern for others, the acknowledgment of the Eternal in the midst of the transitory. Such values are never, in any generation, popular, but these are our values. The great schools stood unabashedly against the times and against the culture.
-The quality of life in each generation is determined by a very small number of people who dare to stand against the times, against the culture.
-This school was founded to create an elite of responsibility and obligation, not an elite of privilege.
-You are already different. You already live by values that relatively few young men your age share. In every generation the world is saved by a few people who stand for something: Socrates, Moses, Churchill, Rosa Parks, Mother Theresa.
-There is another way. It is the way of the few who want to do something great with their lives, who do not fear unpopularity, who dare to risk defeat and even death standing for what they believe in.
-Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.
-That's the perfect definition of courage: to risk trying something that's worth trying that you are not already good at.
-It is a risk to say no to something that's wrong. Your peers may scorn you, reject you, make you feel alone and out of it. On the other hand, some may admire the inner strength that enables you to stand alone. Some may even join you. It's a risk one that requires courage.
-If a leader has a vision, he cannot simply impose it.
-A leader must constantly, endlessly consult, listen, strive for consensus. Far from getting his own way, he must constantly seek the compromises that will bring people together. Far from getting his own way, a leader is constantly trying to understand the viewpoints of others and to persuade them to consider his own viewpoint.
-Leadership is about vision and courage.
-Leadership sometimes requires taking a lonely stand.
-A true leader has the inner strength to lose in a good cause rather than to win in a bad one.
-Leadership consists of just such tiny, quiet, and unspectacular acts.
-Leadership requires above all, character: the ability to cling to a vision, the patience and endurance to persuade others, a thick hide for criticism and unpopularity, a tolerance for anxiety, and a willingness to lose in a good cause, even a willingness to die for your fellow man in a righteous cause.
-At the heart of leadership is character.
-That's the reason we care most of all not how smart you are, not what a good athlete or musician or whatever you are, but what kind of person you are.
-Principle, not popularity, motivated Churchill to stand up to Hitler.
-Some adults who work with young people have a desperate need to be popular, to tell kids what they want to hear.
-Preemptive capitulation.
-Every age is an age of change in which people challenge the traditional values.
-The survival of civilization in every generation depends on a few institutions and individuals, depends on a small minority of people dedicated to working for the public good.
-These are the values we hold: honesty, simplicity, respect and concern for others, the acknowledgment of the Eternal in the midst of the transitory. Such values are never, in any generation, popular, but these are our values. The great schools stood unabashedly against the times and against the culture.
-The quality of life in each generation is determined by a very small number of people who dare to stand against the times, against the culture.
-This school was founded to create an elite of responsibility and obligation, not an elite of privilege.
-You are already different. You already live by values that relatively few young men your age share. In every generation the world is saved by a few people who stand for something: Socrates, Moses, Churchill, Rosa Parks, Mother Theresa.
-There is another way. It is the way of the few who want to do something great with their lives, who do not fear unpopularity, who dare to risk defeat and even death standing for what they believe in.
-Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.
-That's the perfect definition of courage: to risk trying something that's worth trying that you are not already good at.
-It is a risk to say no to something that's wrong. Your peers may scorn you, reject you, make you feel alone and out of it. On the other hand, some may admire the inner strength that enables you to stand alone. Some may even join you. It's a risk one that requires courage.
With love and prayers by F. Jarvis. Quotes XVII
-At the heart of every successful and enduring marriage is friendship.
-It takes two people to make a friendship.
-Vulnerability is the indispensable foundation and basis, the sine qua non, of friendship. No vulnerability, no friendship,
-Three qualities you can bring to a relationship that will help you make and keep a friend:
1. Hopeful commitment.
2.Openness.
3. Loyalty.
-There is no marriage, there is no friendship, in which there are not bad times. For worse is for real.
-We have made a hopeful commitment to care about another person at some cost to ourselves.
-Openness to differences in the first instance. Some people want their friends to look like them, dress like them, act like them, and share the very same interests. Such people are essentially narcissistic.
-One of the greatest joys of real friendship is to come to appreciate differences in others.
-Be open to differences. Be open also to change. All real friendships change and grow.
-Friendship must be based not on controlling but on caring.
-Loyalty: genuine and abiding concern for a person through thick and thin.
-Being loyal to another person does not mean we have to agree with him. Quite the contrary. Loyalty usually requires us to express our disagreement. But loyalty also requires that we express our disagreement to his face, not behind his back, and often privately.
-Friendship is defined by who you handle the disagreements that inevitably arise.
-When the chips are down, when things are for worse rather than for better, when things are poorer than for richer, we discover who our friends really are. Fair weather friends are not friends at all. Real friends are loyal even when it's costly to be loyal.
-As we begin this new year together, my prayer for you is that you will find the courage to risk making friends, and that, through commitment, openness and loyalty, above all, loyalty, you will experience the joy that comes from making and keeping friends.
-It takes two people to make a friendship.
-Vulnerability is the indispensable foundation and basis, the sine qua non, of friendship. No vulnerability, no friendship,
-Three qualities you can bring to a relationship that will help you make and keep a friend:
1. Hopeful commitment.
2.Openness.
3. Loyalty.
-There is no marriage, there is no friendship, in which there are not bad times. For worse is for real.
-We have made a hopeful commitment to care about another person at some cost to ourselves.
-Openness to differences in the first instance. Some people want their friends to look like them, dress like them, act like them, and share the very same interests. Such people are essentially narcissistic.
-One of the greatest joys of real friendship is to come to appreciate differences in others.
-Be open to differences. Be open also to change. All real friendships change and grow.
-Friendship must be based not on controlling but on caring.
-Loyalty: genuine and abiding concern for a person through thick and thin.
-Being loyal to another person does not mean we have to agree with him. Quite the contrary. Loyalty usually requires us to express our disagreement. But loyalty also requires that we express our disagreement to his face, not behind his back, and often privately.
-Friendship is defined by who you handle the disagreements that inevitably arise.
-When the chips are down, when things are for worse rather than for better, when things are poorer than for richer, we discover who our friends really are. Fair weather friends are not friends at all. Real friends are loyal even when it's costly to be loyal.
-As we begin this new year together, my prayer for you is that you will find the courage to risk making friends, and that, through commitment, openness and loyalty, above all, loyalty, you will experience the joy that comes from making and keeping friends.
With love and prayers by F. Jarvis. Quotes XVI
-Self-absorption does not bring happiness.
-There is a great tendency in all of us to withdraw into ourselves, or into safe little cliques of like-minded people, to live sheltered, claustrophobic, risk-free, boring little lives.
-The supreme irony is that while self-absorption brings unhappiness, happiness results from self-risk, inconvenient involvement, self-sacrifice, and costly love.
-Manners are unnatural.
-We acknowledge each other's existence by calling one another by name.
-To the lowest circumstances in which a human being can find himself, no one can take away from you your fundamental civility and no one can take away from you that even higher virtue: the option, the right, to be kind.
-Three simple phrases: I am wrong; I'm sorry; Thank you.
-The happy people are those who assume nothing and who live each day aware of their good fortune, giving thanks for all they do enjoy, however little that may be. Happy are those who count their blessings.
-Even when you don't think people are looking, they often are.
-This boy had done the right thing over and over just because it was the right thing. He expected no reward and he was not aware that the whole time the manager was noticing everything he did.
-Honor and honesty are best.
-When you base your personal life or your career on honesty, you build on a rock that will anchor you through every storm.
-If you try to accomplish anything in life you will receive criticism.
-The people I have come to treasure most in my joy are those who love me enough to take me aside and say: 'That's not right' or 'That's not good enough' or 'I don't think you should say or do that'. I don't enjoy such criticism , and they don't enjoy giving it but I benefit from it.
-Could there be some truth in what they say?
-A moral person's duty is not just avoid sin, but also to avoid the occasions of sin.
-Don't blame others for not taking responsibility for your life. Take responsibility for your own life.
-People say if you like sixty percent of what you are doing in life you are lucky,.
-The goal of every life should be to grow in awareness.
-There are experiences in other fields that are not open to me because I live in too limited a world. We all do. For that reason we must be constantly, consciously seeking new experiences, risking changes in our routine.
-If you have high standards and values, you will at times have to be intolerant and judgmental in normal day to day life.
-If you have seen great works of art you will find it difficult to tolerate cheap, tawdry, and shallow art. If you have read the works of great authors, you will have a hard time tolerating junk. If you are men of integrity, you will have a hard time tolerating fellow workers who lie and cheat.
-Society needs your standards and values. Do not be intimidated into tolerating what is ugly, bad, and untrue. Eschew bad advice: Live life to the full, excessively, immoderately, with abandon. Take risks that will open you up to new experiences and thoughts; don't play it safe. And stand intolerantly for what is good and true and beautiful.
-There is a great tendency in all of us to withdraw into ourselves, or into safe little cliques of like-minded people, to live sheltered, claustrophobic, risk-free, boring little lives.
-The supreme irony is that while self-absorption brings unhappiness, happiness results from self-risk, inconvenient involvement, self-sacrifice, and costly love.
-Manners are unnatural.
-We acknowledge each other's existence by calling one another by name.
-To the lowest circumstances in which a human being can find himself, no one can take away from you your fundamental civility and no one can take away from you that even higher virtue: the option, the right, to be kind.
-Three simple phrases: I am wrong; I'm sorry; Thank you.
-The happy people are those who assume nothing and who live each day aware of their good fortune, giving thanks for all they do enjoy, however little that may be. Happy are those who count their blessings.
-Even when you don't think people are looking, they often are.
-This boy had done the right thing over and over just because it was the right thing. He expected no reward and he was not aware that the whole time the manager was noticing everything he did.
-Honor and honesty are best.
-When you base your personal life or your career on honesty, you build on a rock that will anchor you through every storm.
-If you try to accomplish anything in life you will receive criticism.
-The people I have come to treasure most in my joy are those who love me enough to take me aside and say: 'That's not right' or 'That's not good enough' or 'I don't think you should say or do that'. I don't enjoy such criticism , and they don't enjoy giving it but I benefit from it.
-Could there be some truth in what they say?
-A moral person's duty is not just avoid sin, but also to avoid the occasions of sin.
-Don't blame others for not taking responsibility for your life. Take responsibility for your own life.
-People say if you like sixty percent of what you are doing in life you are lucky,.
-The goal of every life should be to grow in awareness.
-There are experiences in other fields that are not open to me because I live in too limited a world. We all do. For that reason we must be constantly, consciously seeking new experiences, risking changes in our routine.
-If you have high standards and values, you will at times have to be intolerant and judgmental in normal day to day life.
-If you have seen great works of art you will find it difficult to tolerate cheap, tawdry, and shallow art. If you have read the works of great authors, you will have a hard time tolerating junk. If you are men of integrity, you will have a hard time tolerating fellow workers who lie and cheat.
-Society needs your standards and values. Do not be intimidated into tolerating what is ugly, bad, and untrue. Eschew bad advice: Live life to the full, excessively, immoderately, with abandon. Take risks that will open you up to new experiences and thoughts; don't play it safe. And stand intolerantly for what is good and true and beautiful.
With love and prayers by F. Jarvis. Quotes XV
-A loser is someone who doesn't have significant long-range goals for his life, and overall sense of purpose that gives his life meaning.
-It is only when you have worthwhile long-range goals that you are able to resist destructive pleasures day by day.
-The winner has two qualities: he has well-thought-out goals and the courage to pursue those goals.
-The winner has anticipated the rejection and with a positive attitude he sets about constructively trying to figure out how he can make specific college serve the larger purposes and goals of his life.
-Billy McDonald. I am going to fight it with everything I have. Through the ensuing months, the frequent returns to the hospital, he never said: 'Why me?'
-Life's winners have three great qualities:
1. They each remember to count their blessings.
2. They do not see life in terms of its obstacles, but in terms of its possibilities.
3. They are courageous.
-I was the only person in the country that day to go from Boston to Portland on the train.
-The essence of education is to lead people out of themselves.
-We are just not dying to read the next novel in English, or to learn the subjunctive in Latin, or to master the glories of Algebra. These things are unnatural. But most of us know that it is good for you and so you come along cheerfully with some semblance of enthusiasm.
-My prayer for you, then, is that you will risk suspending disbelief, that you will risk opening yourselves to new insights, which will lead you out of your confined outlook on life to delight in the new and broader and richer perspectives that are as yet behind you.
-To Jesus, no one was unimportant. Jesus did not divide people into categories, most important to least important. There were no little people to him. No one was contemptible to Jesus. No one was unworthy of his time. No one was unimportant. This was the rabbi who taught that 'he who wold be greatest among you must be the servant of all'
-What did Jesus mean when he said 'to receive the Kingdom of God like a child?
1. To be open and receptive.
2. To be honest about our feelings.
3. To let things go.
-It is only when you have worthwhile long-range goals that you are able to resist destructive pleasures day by day.
-The winner has two qualities: he has well-thought-out goals and the courage to pursue those goals.
-The winner has anticipated the rejection and with a positive attitude he sets about constructively trying to figure out how he can make specific college serve the larger purposes and goals of his life.
-Billy McDonald. I am going to fight it with everything I have. Through the ensuing months, the frequent returns to the hospital, he never said: 'Why me?'
-Life's winners have three great qualities:
1. They each remember to count their blessings.
2. They do not see life in terms of its obstacles, but in terms of its possibilities.
3. They are courageous.
-I was the only person in the country that day to go from Boston to Portland on the train.
-The essence of education is to lead people out of themselves.
-We are just not dying to read the next novel in English, or to learn the subjunctive in Latin, or to master the glories of Algebra. These things are unnatural. But most of us know that it is good for you and so you come along cheerfully with some semblance of enthusiasm.
-My prayer for you, then, is that you will risk suspending disbelief, that you will risk opening yourselves to new insights, which will lead you out of your confined outlook on life to delight in the new and broader and richer perspectives that are as yet behind you.
-To Jesus, no one was unimportant. Jesus did not divide people into categories, most important to least important. There were no little people to him. No one was contemptible to Jesus. No one was unworthy of his time. No one was unimportant. This was the rabbi who taught that 'he who wold be greatest among you must be the servant of all'
-What did Jesus mean when he said 'to receive the Kingdom of God like a child?
1. To be open and receptive.
2. To be honest about our feelings.
3. To let things go.
With love and prayers by F. Jarvis. Quotes XIV
-I pray that, in your own lives, you will dare to have high hopes, not only in your relationships with others, but in what you do with your lives. Cast fear aside. Let your hope be divinely irresponsible. No risk of pain, no chance of gain.
-I plead guilty. Show no mercy. I don't regret a word of what I said. I accept the accusation of being an idealist as a crown upon my head, as the ultimate compliment. I rejoice in the accusation with my whole being.
-The principal reason for this school's existence is to advocate, advance, and inculcate in students certain great personal qualities.
-We care most of all what kind of person a boy is, because we believe that personal qualities are far more important than academic success in fitting students for public service. Three of those qualities are: discernment, vision, and courage.
-Discernment begins with ourselves, with self-awareness.
-Discernment extends beyond ourselves so that we become aware of and sensitive to the pain, the loneliness, the hurt in the lives of those around us. We are not all wrapped up in ourselves.
-A few things endure; most things do not endure. We seek at this school to bring you into contact with things so enduring that they deserve the name immortal.
-Our efforts here will have failed if you do not know yourselves, if you are not strong enough to see and control your temptations, if you are insensitive to the feelings of those around you. Our efforts here will have failed you if you do not grow in your awareness of the beauty and order of the universe and of the great achievements of your fellow men and women.
-Vision is the quality that enables us to look beyond the immediate, beyond the present, to see our lives in a larger context, to postpone gratification in order to achieve long-rage goals.
-The vision of the future gives you something to strive for now in the present.
-Important, though, as such a vision is, it is nothing like as important as an overall vision for your whole life.
-Such a vision must entail not only finding meaning in your life but meaning also in your inevitable death.
-Most people never seek or achieve such a vision. MATTHEW ARNOLD. Rugby Chapel, November 1857.
What is the course of the life
Of mortal men on the earth?
Most men eddy about
Here and there, eat and drink,
Chatter and love and hate,
Gather and squander, are raised
Aloft, are hurl'd in the dust,
Striving blindly, achieving
Nothing; and then they die,
Perish; and no one asks
Who or what they have been...
-Winston Churchill, when asked what is the King of Virtues, instantly replied: Courage, because it is the guarantor of all the others.
-It takes courage to seek a great vision for our lives and much greater courage to make the sacrifices along the way to follow that vision. It is easy to sit around whining and complaining and blaming. It takes courage to lead, to aspire to greatness.
-In any given generation there are only a few men and women of discernment, vision, and courage. Only a few. Only a few. Jesus said to his tiny band of apparently insignificant ragtag followers who went on to turn the world upside down: 'You are the salt of the earth'. A few tiny grains who could transform the taste of the whole meal. A few individuals of discernment, vision, and courage who could transform a whole society in their generation. The reason for this school's existence in every generation is to produce just such individuals, just such committees of one, who will be in their generation the salt of the earth.
-I plead guilty. Show no mercy. I don't regret a word of what I said. I accept the accusation of being an idealist as a crown upon my head, as the ultimate compliment. I rejoice in the accusation with my whole being.
-The principal reason for this school's existence is to advocate, advance, and inculcate in students certain great personal qualities.
-We care most of all what kind of person a boy is, because we believe that personal qualities are far more important than academic success in fitting students for public service. Three of those qualities are: discernment, vision, and courage.
-Discernment begins with ourselves, with self-awareness.
-Discernment extends beyond ourselves so that we become aware of and sensitive to the pain, the loneliness, the hurt in the lives of those around us. We are not all wrapped up in ourselves.
-A few things endure; most things do not endure. We seek at this school to bring you into contact with things so enduring that they deserve the name immortal.
-Our efforts here will have failed if you do not know yourselves, if you are not strong enough to see and control your temptations, if you are insensitive to the feelings of those around you. Our efforts here will have failed you if you do not grow in your awareness of the beauty and order of the universe and of the great achievements of your fellow men and women.
-Vision is the quality that enables us to look beyond the immediate, beyond the present, to see our lives in a larger context, to postpone gratification in order to achieve long-rage goals.
-The vision of the future gives you something to strive for now in the present.
-Important, though, as such a vision is, it is nothing like as important as an overall vision for your whole life.
-Such a vision must entail not only finding meaning in your life but meaning also in your inevitable death.
-Most people never seek or achieve such a vision. MATTHEW ARNOLD. Rugby Chapel, November 1857.
What is the course of the life
Of mortal men on the earth?
Most men eddy about
Here and there, eat and drink,
Chatter and love and hate,
Gather and squander, are raised
Aloft, are hurl'd in the dust,
Striving blindly, achieving
Nothing; and then they die,
Perish; and no one asks
Who or what they have been...
-Winston Churchill, when asked what is the King of Virtues, instantly replied: Courage, because it is the guarantor of all the others.
-It takes courage to seek a great vision for our lives and much greater courage to make the sacrifices along the way to follow that vision. It is easy to sit around whining and complaining and blaming. It takes courage to lead, to aspire to greatness.
-In any given generation there are only a few men and women of discernment, vision, and courage. Only a few. Only a few. Jesus said to his tiny band of apparently insignificant ragtag followers who went on to turn the world upside down: 'You are the salt of the earth'. A few tiny grains who could transform the taste of the whole meal. A few individuals of discernment, vision, and courage who could transform a whole society in their generation. The reason for this school's existence in every generation is to produce just such individuals, just such committees of one, who will be in their generation the salt of the earth.
Monday, April 29, 2019
With love and prayers by F. Jarvis. Quotes XIII
-Love is acting patient on the outside with others when your are burning on the inside with some concern of your own.
-Love is often an act: it is the curbing of your own natural desires, it is willed caring for another person when you'd really like to be caring about your own needs.
-A lot of people will advise you to be your real self. It's terrible advice. Your real self is egocentric and self-seeking. Don't be your real self.
-When you put on the act of love, the first thing you do is to put yourself in the other person's place.
-It is because I love your so much that I've told you that your essay is atrocious. (Love is intolerant. If you love a person, you are sometimes intolerant of things he does and says).
-To be a good loser, to handle disappointment with class.
-Real happiness in life only comes to those who are able to care about others at some cost to themselves.
-That confrontation was the most important thing that ever happened to me. Your forced me to break out of my lifelong pattern of behavior. You made me act kind and patient, and I found I actually liked being kind and patient. By forcing me to change my behavior, you actually changed who I was on the inside.
-The outward practice of love leads to an inward disposition to love.
-If you want to be happy, then, you must learn to love: to pay the price of caring for others, of putting them first, of inconveniencing yourself.
-If you are condemned to death, if you discover you're going to die, you are strangely liberated.
-The prospect of death brings perspective, conveys a divine irresponsibility: we suddenly see how small our wold is, and we suddenly realize the unimportance of all the things we considered so important.
-Only a few in every generation go beyond the conventional to the daring.
-There is much, much more to life than striving. Life is more than getting, more than accumulating.
-A faith that takes into account life's shortness and life's deepest and most ultimate questions is the only faith that can bring us real happiness.
-If you never take any risks, you will never love. If you never make yourself vulnerable to another person, you will never get hurt. If you never attempt anything great, if you have never set big goals or have high hopes, you will never be disappointed. But what a narrow and, frankly, cowardly way to live.
-Love is often an act: it is the curbing of your own natural desires, it is willed caring for another person when you'd really like to be caring about your own needs.
-A lot of people will advise you to be your real self. It's terrible advice. Your real self is egocentric and self-seeking. Don't be your real self.
-When you put on the act of love, the first thing you do is to put yourself in the other person's place.
-It is because I love your so much that I've told you that your essay is atrocious. (Love is intolerant. If you love a person, you are sometimes intolerant of things he does and says).
-To be a good loser, to handle disappointment with class.
-Real happiness in life only comes to those who are able to care about others at some cost to themselves.
-That confrontation was the most important thing that ever happened to me. Your forced me to break out of my lifelong pattern of behavior. You made me act kind and patient, and I found I actually liked being kind and patient. By forcing me to change my behavior, you actually changed who I was on the inside.
-The outward practice of love leads to an inward disposition to love.
-If you want to be happy, then, you must learn to love: to pay the price of caring for others, of putting them first, of inconveniencing yourself.
-If you are condemned to death, if you discover you're going to die, you are strangely liberated.
-The prospect of death brings perspective, conveys a divine irresponsibility: we suddenly see how small our wold is, and we suddenly realize the unimportance of all the things we considered so important.
-Only a few in every generation go beyond the conventional to the daring.
-There is much, much more to life than striving. Life is more than getting, more than accumulating.
-A faith that takes into account life's shortness and life's deepest and most ultimate questions is the only faith that can bring us real happiness.
-If you never take any risks, you will never love. If you never make yourself vulnerable to another person, you will never get hurt. If you never attempt anything great, if you have never set big goals or have high hopes, you will never be disappointed. But what a narrow and, frankly, cowardly way to live.
Sunday, April 28, 2019
Saturday, April 20, 2019
With love and prayers by F. Jarvis. Quotes XII
-No age has believed no naively in inadequate faiths: the faith that promotion and success bring real happiness, the faith that pleasure brings real happiness, the faith that government money will solve the problems of society.
-Only the shepherds were aware that something significant had occurred. They were watching their flocks in the quiet of the night. They were listening. While the brightest and best, the important people, slept, it was the shepherds who heard the angel sing.
-Those who recognize their need, who are honest enough to see the emptiness and inadequacy of their lives, those who search for God in their need, always find him. The magi found the baby in the manger.
-The real beauty is beyond all its earthly imitations and representations, beyond all the earthly intimations and hints. It is at the top of Jacob's ladder. It is above the passing things of earth; it transcends time.
-God always nourishes those who stretch out their hands to him in longing hope. Such yearning always finds what it seeks.
-He who endures to the end shall be saved.
-God often sends in reinforcements to help just at the right moment.
-"He loved great things and thought little of himself". Balliol College at Oxford. Plaque in memory of one of the college tutors who died in an accident in Mount Blanc.
-How much grief we cause ourselves in life by assuming that everything will always go smoothly.
-Many people with very high I.Q's are tremendous failures in life.
-Hope comes from the gut. Hope gives you the motivation to endure the hard work, the pain, the exhaustion that are part of any worthwhile endeavor. That's why hope is a virtue.
-God always answers prayer.
-Our deepest prayers are often not articulated in words.
-God gives us occasional glimpses into the meaning of things, in small, quiet ways.
-Hope is not optimism. Hope is realistic.
-All of you are going to die, some sooner, some later. What will they say about you? My prayer is that they will say about you what they said about Sir Robert Shirley: that in the worst of times you did the best things, and in the most calamitous of times you hoped the best things.
-Only the shepherds were aware that something significant had occurred. They were watching their flocks in the quiet of the night. They were listening. While the brightest and best, the important people, slept, it was the shepherds who heard the angel sing.
-Those who recognize their need, who are honest enough to see the emptiness and inadequacy of their lives, those who search for God in their need, always find him. The magi found the baby in the manger.
-The real beauty is beyond all its earthly imitations and representations, beyond all the earthly intimations and hints. It is at the top of Jacob's ladder. It is above the passing things of earth; it transcends time.
-God always nourishes those who stretch out their hands to him in longing hope. Such yearning always finds what it seeks.
-He who endures to the end shall be saved.
-God often sends in reinforcements to help just at the right moment.
-"He loved great things and thought little of himself". Balliol College at Oxford. Plaque in memory of one of the college tutors who died in an accident in Mount Blanc.
-How much grief we cause ourselves in life by assuming that everything will always go smoothly.
-Many people with very high I.Q's are tremendous failures in life.
-Hope comes from the gut. Hope gives you the motivation to endure the hard work, the pain, the exhaustion that are part of any worthwhile endeavor. That's why hope is a virtue.
-God always answers prayer.
-Our deepest prayers are often not articulated in words.
-God gives us occasional glimpses into the meaning of things, in small, quiet ways.
-Hope is not optimism. Hope is realistic.
-All of you are going to die, some sooner, some later. What will they say about you? My prayer is that they will say about you what they said about Sir Robert Shirley: that in the worst of times you did the best things, and in the most calamitous of times you hoped the best things.
With love and prayers by F. Jarvis. Quotes XI
-Much unhappiness in life seems to me to stem from the unwillingness of people to live with their decisions.
-If we really have made a wrong decision and are realistic about the opportunities a change might bring us, then we should correct our decision.
-Much of life's unhappiness is caused by our unwillingness to face up to the inevitable discouragements entailed in any one of the lives we might choose.
-When we face the fact that every life worth living has its discouragements, its own unfairness if you like, we have then taken a giant step towards happiness.
-In any life worth living, we will be hurting much of the time.
-As we mature, we acquire the faith, the perspective, that the discouragements, the injuries, cannot break us, cannot make us lose sight of the great things we are determined to achieve.
-Faith grows stronger and stronger every time we overcome discouragement and pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and go on.
-Each discouragement is a test, each discouragement overcome is a victory.
-"Blessed is the man who falls into divers kinds of trials, knowing that the testing of this faith will produce the spirit of endurance and endurance will enlarge and confirm this faith.
-We feel downhearted or empty, when we lose our sense of the meaning and purpose of our lives.
-"From time to time, almost every thoughtful and reflective person walks through life's valleys. Such experiences of depression and despair are natural to people who labor strenuously to achieve something important. The issue is not so much that you are depressed as what you are going to do about being depressed."J.S. Bezzant. Father Jarvis tutor at Cambridge University.
-Three tactics in dealing with depression:
1. Don't run.
2. Take one step at a time.
3. Find and keep the vision.
-Be honest with yourself. Don't run away. Don't pretend, don't wait for it to pass. Don't be passive.
-We have to quiet down and listen if we are to find the center of our lives.
-If the search for what is good and true and beautiful begins with emptiness, it continues to be a hard journey, a long and arduous search, through encounters not only with the Herods of this world, but even worse, with our own inward sense of despair, that terrible sense that the whole journey is not worth it.
-If we are somehow able to leave behind what is known and comfortable, and undertake the journey in search of life's meaning, we must realize that the journey will be arduous, filled with discouragement and despair, filled with the voices singing in our ears, saying that the search is folly. We must somehow sustain hope, as the wise men did, when in the depths we lose all sight of the star. And we must expect, like the wise men, that we shall never experience great joy until we have suffered many sorrows.
-They departed to their own country another way.
-Get every penny of this and take it to Mrs. Harriger. Tell her you are sorry. Tell her you will work for her every day in the garden for the remainder of the summer.
-I knew there would be no supper.
-At about 8:30 my father came up as always to hear my prayers. He sat as always at the foot of the bed. As always I rendered my prayers to God and my father. At the end there was a short silence, which I pathetic and pitiable, broke by saying: I am sorry, Daddy. I know he said and ran his fingers through my hair. And then he arose and returned down the stairs.
The power that two little words can have: I know, he said. What more any of us want if life than to be understood? Those two small words conveyed to me that he somehow understood how I could do something so terrible. That he understood that I was sorry. I was no longer alone. And the power of a tiny gesture, his fingers through my hair. Despite my crime, I was not only understood, I was loved.
Two small words and one small gesture and the whole universe was again set right. I lay back upon my pillow and slept the profound sleep of one who is at peace.
-People who don't care about you don't take the trouble to rebuke you. Most people avoid such confrontations. They simply don't give you the raise or the promotion, and you never find out why.
-I worked for Old Lady Harriger every day for the rest of the summer. The punishment was not reduced. The hours were not shortened. Not a penny of my money was returned. I was not let off easy. And for that I am glad because I felt by summer's end that I had paid for my sins. And that's a great feeling.
-Now that he is gone and I can't thank him, I thank God that my father loved me so much that he did not spare me the pain, the loneliness, the desolation, by which alone I could grow to become a better and stronger person.
-If we really have made a wrong decision and are realistic about the opportunities a change might bring us, then we should correct our decision.
-Much of life's unhappiness is caused by our unwillingness to face up to the inevitable discouragements entailed in any one of the lives we might choose.
-When we face the fact that every life worth living has its discouragements, its own unfairness if you like, we have then taken a giant step towards happiness.
-In any life worth living, we will be hurting much of the time.
-As we mature, we acquire the faith, the perspective, that the discouragements, the injuries, cannot break us, cannot make us lose sight of the great things we are determined to achieve.
-Faith grows stronger and stronger every time we overcome discouragement and pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and go on.
-Each discouragement is a test, each discouragement overcome is a victory.
-"Blessed is the man who falls into divers kinds of trials, knowing that the testing of this faith will produce the spirit of endurance and endurance will enlarge and confirm this faith.
-We feel downhearted or empty, when we lose our sense of the meaning and purpose of our lives.
-"From time to time, almost every thoughtful and reflective person walks through life's valleys. Such experiences of depression and despair are natural to people who labor strenuously to achieve something important. The issue is not so much that you are depressed as what you are going to do about being depressed."J.S. Bezzant. Father Jarvis tutor at Cambridge University.
-Three tactics in dealing with depression:
1. Don't run.
2. Take one step at a time.
3. Find and keep the vision.
-Be honest with yourself. Don't run away. Don't pretend, don't wait for it to pass. Don't be passive.
-We have to quiet down and listen if we are to find the center of our lives.
-If the search for what is good and true and beautiful begins with emptiness, it continues to be a hard journey, a long and arduous search, through encounters not only with the Herods of this world, but even worse, with our own inward sense of despair, that terrible sense that the whole journey is not worth it.
-If we are somehow able to leave behind what is known and comfortable, and undertake the journey in search of life's meaning, we must realize that the journey will be arduous, filled with discouragement and despair, filled with the voices singing in our ears, saying that the search is folly. We must somehow sustain hope, as the wise men did, when in the depths we lose all sight of the star. And we must expect, like the wise men, that we shall never experience great joy until we have suffered many sorrows.
-They departed to their own country another way.
-Get every penny of this and take it to Mrs. Harriger. Tell her you are sorry. Tell her you will work for her every day in the garden for the remainder of the summer.
-I knew there would be no supper.
-At about 8:30 my father came up as always to hear my prayers. He sat as always at the foot of the bed. As always I rendered my prayers to God and my father. At the end there was a short silence, which I pathetic and pitiable, broke by saying: I am sorry, Daddy. I know he said and ran his fingers through my hair. And then he arose and returned down the stairs.
The power that two little words can have: I know, he said. What more any of us want if life than to be understood? Those two small words conveyed to me that he somehow understood how I could do something so terrible. That he understood that I was sorry. I was no longer alone. And the power of a tiny gesture, his fingers through my hair. Despite my crime, I was not only understood, I was loved.
Two small words and one small gesture and the whole universe was again set right. I lay back upon my pillow and slept the profound sleep of one who is at peace.
-People who don't care about you don't take the trouble to rebuke you. Most people avoid such confrontations. They simply don't give you the raise or the promotion, and you never find out why.
-I worked for Old Lady Harriger every day for the rest of the summer. The punishment was not reduced. The hours were not shortened. Not a penny of my money was returned. I was not let off easy. And for that I am glad because I felt by summer's end that I had paid for my sins. And that's a great feeling.
-Now that he is gone and I can't thank him, I thank God that my father loved me so much that he did not spare me the pain, the loneliness, the desolation, by which alone I could grow to become a better and stronger person.
With love and prayers by F. Jarvis. Quotes X
-It is always a losing battle to fight against things you cannot change.
-In my experience, it is foolish to expect things to go well.
-In the world, said Jesus, you shall have tribulation.
-The happy adolescent, the happy adult, is pessimistic: he expects that things will not turn out as he hopes.
-I urge you to hold onto high hopes, to aspire to great things. But I also urge you to be pessimists: to expect things to go badly, to go wrong; to expect that many of your hopes will not be realized. Much of the immense happiness I feel in my own life comes from being a hopeful pessimist. If you are a hopeful pessimist, you will again and again be surprised by joy when some of your hopes are, in fact, realized.
-Accept what you can't change. Expect the worst. Make and inventory of your worries.
-I am talking about prayer from the heart, prayer that is often beyond words, prayer that is offered with our whole being.
-There are people you care more about even than you care about yourself. This usually happens when you have children of your own.
-It is a tough world out there, and to live in that tough world a boy needs to gain the self-confidence that he can face up to burdensome responsibilities on his own. He needs to realize that he is tough enough to handle his own problems, to survive on his own.
-I say this not to demoralize you; I say it because it's a reality and we need to base our lives on reality.
-Life spares no one. Every one of us has weaknesses. Every one of us is vulnerable and has to deal with lack of drive and failure and disappointment.
-The trophies we long to win often turn to dust even as we clasp them in triumph.
-Socrates said the wisest man is the one who realizes how little he knows. I submit that the strongest and toughest and most self-sufficient man is the one who realizes how vulnerable and frail he is.
-The beginning of wisdom is the realization that, if you want to stand on your two feet, you must learn to kneel on your own two knees.
-In my experience, it is foolish to expect things to go well.
-In the world, said Jesus, you shall have tribulation.
-The happy adolescent, the happy adult, is pessimistic: he expects that things will not turn out as he hopes.
-I urge you to hold onto high hopes, to aspire to great things. But I also urge you to be pessimists: to expect things to go badly, to go wrong; to expect that many of your hopes will not be realized. Much of the immense happiness I feel in my own life comes from being a hopeful pessimist. If you are a hopeful pessimist, you will again and again be surprised by joy when some of your hopes are, in fact, realized.
-Accept what you can't change. Expect the worst. Make and inventory of your worries.
-I am talking about prayer from the heart, prayer that is often beyond words, prayer that is offered with our whole being.
-There are people you care more about even than you care about yourself. This usually happens when you have children of your own.
-It is a tough world out there, and to live in that tough world a boy needs to gain the self-confidence that he can face up to burdensome responsibilities on his own. He needs to realize that he is tough enough to handle his own problems, to survive on his own.
-I say this not to demoralize you; I say it because it's a reality and we need to base our lives on reality.
-Life spares no one. Every one of us has weaknesses. Every one of us is vulnerable and has to deal with lack of drive and failure and disappointment.
-The trophies we long to win often turn to dust even as we clasp them in triumph.
-Socrates said the wisest man is the one who realizes how little he knows. I submit that the strongest and toughest and most self-sufficient man is the one who realizes how vulnerable and frail he is.
-The beginning of wisdom is the realization that, if you want to stand on your two feet, you must learn to kneel on your own two knees.
With love and prayers by F. Jarvis. Quotes IX
-What can you possible say to young people as they look to the future?
-At this point all David had was faith, his believe that the God who had delivered him from danger in the past would show him a way now in the present.
-What can I do? I am not brilliant or handsome or powerful. I don't have the necessary training.
-With quiet and abiding trust in God, David persisted in the face of this universal contempt.
-They dared to face the contempt heaped on them. They dared trust that the Living God could use their apparently insignificant lives to overcome the strutting and powerful giant. And it turned out that they were the realistic ones, and it was they who prevailed.
-The world is filled with people like the army of Saul and the Israelites in the wilderness who stand around wringing their hands in despair and assuring everyone that nothing can be done.
-Jesus of Nazareth commanded no army, held no public office, knew none of the influential people of his time, never even went to college or achieved success in business. He was put to death, silenced as a nuisance. His few followers scattered in fear and despair. And yet this single person has had a more powerful impact than anyone in all of history. He was armed only with a single weapon: love.
-I do not feel sorry for you, I do not despair about the future that you have to face. I do not wring my hands in dismay about what lies ahead for you. In all of history, there has never been a more thrilling time to be alive than this moment. Humanity faces the greatest crisis it has ever faced. Nothing less that the survival of the human race is at stake.
-In that moment of temptation remember David. Remember David's faith, ridiculed as naive and unrealistic by everyone from his brothers to the king. Remember Moses and Jesus. Remember the Davids of every generation: Rosa Parks and Desmond Tutu, the few in every generation who believed that the Living God could use even their pathetically tiny talents to challenge the giant evils of their time.
-I do not despair for you. I rather rejoice. Times of maximum danger provide maximum opportunity. If our time is the most dangerous time in all of the history, it is also the most sublime. Some of you who are sitting here this morning will find the faith and courage to place your lives in the service of the Living God confident that He can use what little you have in his great purpose. And like David, in his service you shall prevail.
-At this point all David had was faith, his believe that the God who had delivered him from danger in the past would show him a way now in the present.
-What can I do? I am not brilliant or handsome or powerful. I don't have the necessary training.
-With quiet and abiding trust in God, David persisted in the face of this universal contempt.
-They dared to face the contempt heaped on them. They dared trust that the Living God could use their apparently insignificant lives to overcome the strutting and powerful giant. And it turned out that they were the realistic ones, and it was they who prevailed.
-The world is filled with people like the army of Saul and the Israelites in the wilderness who stand around wringing their hands in despair and assuring everyone that nothing can be done.
-Jesus of Nazareth commanded no army, held no public office, knew none of the influential people of his time, never even went to college or achieved success in business. He was put to death, silenced as a nuisance. His few followers scattered in fear and despair. And yet this single person has had a more powerful impact than anyone in all of history. He was armed only with a single weapon: love.
-I do not feel sorry for you, I do not despair about the future that you have to face. I do not wring my hands in dismay about what lies ahead for you. In all of history, there has never been a more thrilling time to be alive than this moment. Humanity faces the greatest crisis it has ever faced. Nothing less that the survival of the human race is at stake.
-In that moment of temptation remember David. Remember David's faith, ridiculed as naive and unrealistic by everyone from his brothers to the king. Remember Moses and Jesus. Remember the Davids of every generation: Rosa Parks and Desmond Tutu, the few in every generation who believed that the Living God could use even their pathetically tiny talents to challenge the giant evils of their time.
-I do not despair for you. I rather rejoice. Times of maximum danger provide maximum opportunity. If our time is the most dangerous time in all of the history, it is also the most sublime. Some of you who are sitting here this morning will find the faith and courage to place your lives in the service of the Living God confident that He can use what little you have in his great purpose. And like David, in his service you shall prevail.
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