This book was an amazing read. Doris Kearns Goodwin took a decade to research and write this book. She read through years of documents and letters, incorporating quotes into sentences contructed in a way that reads like a novel. Really got me interested in American history and learned what kind…
There is no physician like cheerful thought for dissipating the ills of the body; there is no comforter to compare with goodwill for dispersing the shadows of grief and sorrow. To live continually in thoughts of ill will, cynicism, suspicion, and envy, is to be confined in a self made…
A little lengthy this morning ladies & gents BUT so powerful and packed with truth! Tremendous read. . . The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck, of fortune, and chance. Seeing a man grow rich,…
“Here I was, exposed and existing amongst nature on a grand scale. It was lending me a new vitality. There was a fresh and humbling center of gravity out here. Out here, with no ceilings and no floors, there was no place to hide. Even though I was such a…
“Your mind as such has a tendency to complete – anything incomplete gives you tension. If you wanted to laugh and you could not, there will be tension. If you wanted to cry and could not, there will be tension. If you wanted to be angry and could not, there…
We pile one personal choice on top of another personal choice, one impulse on top of the next impulse, until one day we’re standing on top of a mountain of choices and impulses, and how we stand (and, how high) tells the world everything it needs to know about who…
This is a fantastic read. Makes you laugh, cry and ponder who you are, where you’re at and what you may want to change. “True love never forces.” – William P. Young, The Shack By: TV
Chapter One Nairobi ~ The Journey Begins “The soul never thinks without a picture.” PLATO “Oh, say can you see, by the dawn’s early light…” Francis Scott Key’s words ring in my ears and in my heart. Yes, now I can see. Hindsight being our clearest vision, I…
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story….
