Jacqueline Gargiulo

“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”
― Thomas Merton

tags: courage, faith, hope, possibility

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“Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.”
― Stan Slap

tags: business-culture, business-management-training, change-management-training, characteristics-of-leadership, conflict-management-training, definition-leadership, definition-of-leadership, developing-leadership-skills, effective-leadership, keynote-speaker, keynote-speech, leadership-and-management, leadership-characteristics, leadership-class, leadership-development, leadership-development-plan, leadership-development-program, leadership-development-programs, leadership-speech, leadership-styles, leadership-styles-in-managers, leadership-team-development, leadership-training, leadership-traits, leadership-vs-management, management-and-leadership, management-consulting-services, management-skills-training, management-training, management-training-courses, management-training-program, management-training-programs, management-vs-leadership, manager-training, organizational-culture, organizational-leadership, performance-management-training, risk-management-training, sales-effectiveness, sales-management-training, theories-of-leadership, training-management, training-management-system, values-company

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“The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.”
― Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

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“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

tags: friendship, love, self-discovery, trust, truth

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“The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.”
― Stan Slap