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“Nothing in this world is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE”
― Kerry Patterson, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

“Life in God should be a daring adventure of love—a continuous journey of putting aside our securities to enter more profoundly into the uncharted depths of God. Too often, however, we settle for mediocrity. We follow the rules and practices of prayer but we are unwilling or, for various reasons, unable to give ourselves totally to God. To settle on the plain of mediocrity is really to settle for something less than God that leaves the heart restless and unfulfilled. A story from the desert fathers reminds us that giving oneself wholly to God can make a difference: Abba Lot went to see Abba Joseph and said to him, “Abba, as far as I can I say my little office, I fast a little, I pray and meditate, I live in peace and as far as I can, I purify my thoughts. What else can I do?” Then the old man stood up and stretched his hands towards heaven. His fingers became like ten lamps of fire and he said to him, “If you will, you can become all flame.”15”
― Ilia Delio, Franciscan Prayer

“Peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you’re capable.”
― John Wooden, The Essential Wooden: A Lifetime of Lessons on Leaders and Leadership

“for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.”
― Jack London, White Fang