Sharon Heck

“Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.”
― Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.”
― Daniel Goleman, Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships