I’ve done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt – Jessamyn West
“I’ve done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt,” and the most harm has been done to myself.
This will be the most honest [...]

During the Middle Ages, probably one of the biggest mistakes was not putting on your armor because you were “just going down to the corner.” – Jack Handy
At times I grow weary of the tests that life throw at me, the constant pokes and challenges from moment to moment that always seem to [...]

 
Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep – Carl Sandburg
Am I living my deepest purpose?  Not quite yet. There are still a few distractions I must work through before I can say with certainty that I have penetrated my true core.
Each day [...]

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another’s keeping.- Oliver Goldsmith

I have heard the phrase “fear of success” a number of times and just came across it in a book that I am currently reading.  My best friend Jim has even used this phrase when describing me.  [...]

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.  ~Honoré de Balzac
This morning will probably be one of my most intimate, and darkest posts ever, because I am about share something I have been working on here lately.
March 3 will mark seven years since I [...]

Love:  A Suggested Definition – The ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose to be for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. — Wayne Dyer, Your Erroneous Zones
There isn’t a single person out there who could accuse me of being normal, I dare you to [...]

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
Never have truer words been spoken than in today’s quote.  I see daily examples in my life how this pattern has led me to [...]

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Niebuhr
Tuesday morning a situation arose in my life which at first seemed to be something horrible, but as it progressed, I saw how absurdly funny it [...]

“Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It’s not hard. Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking.”
Everyone needs a Teri in their life.   One of those quiet unassuming friends who day by day makes subtle changes to their life that amount to huge progress the likes that most never achieve.  No fan fair, [...]

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is and what kind of man you long to be – Thomas Carlyle
As stated in a previous post, that I was going back to basics when it came to pursuing [...]