Watching vs Participating

“The best way to waste your life, ... is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.”

 Chuck Palahniuk quotes (American freelance Journalist, Satirist and Novelist. b.1961)

Just as I thought...

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
Jules Renard

A Reason to Write (or blog!)

"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man;
and writing an exact man." Francis Bacon

The Purpose of Life

Life isn’t about building to a place where we can do what we want all the time – that goal ends in becoming our own little gods. Life happens outdoors, with other people, in God’s presence, for God’s purposes. It’s a gift.

From: Christianity.com
Seven Lessons from Summer Camp by Shawn McEvoy, Faith Editor

Lookin' Up

"No empowerment is so effective as self- empowerment... In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are always positive. Even when wrong, they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right [because it creates a self-fulfilling prophecy of failure]."

-- David Landes: "Culture Makes All the Difference," in Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress (edited by Samuel P. Huntington and Lawrence E. Harrison)

Goals

If you are bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a
burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.

Lou Holz
legendary football coach

God Knows Best

When things don't work out as planned,
say "God must have something better for me."

Jack Canfield
The Success Principles

Out of the Comfort Zone

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

Robert Fritz
The Path of Least Resistance

Attitude Check

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on
life...the remarkable thing is we have a choice each day regarding the attitude we will
embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the inevitable. The
only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude...I am
convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.”

Chuck Swindoll

Ever felt like giving up?

"Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. "

Calvin Coolidge