Category Archives: Courage
When Life Has Scarred You
Whatever You’ve Got, Be Glad of it
The old proverb goes, “Into every life a little rain must fall.” And I always thought – a little?!! You ain’t been payin’ attention here. Most of us can manage to get through the bad times, but we don’t have to like it, right? And we ain’t forgetting the struggle – that memory stays with us. And stays.
On the other hand, some few people always seem to come out the other side of turmoil with their peace, their equanimity, still intact. How do they do that?
How to Manage Your Moods Starting Now
Driving Your Own Emotions
Sure, we all have emotions. Some are happy type feelings and others are sad. We all know about that (only too well in most cases). But what about all those emotions. We enjoy the good ones and don’t enjoy the crappy ones, but what’re you gonna do? Sometimes you just can’t help feeling how you feel, right? Well, here’s a heads-up.
Modern Slavery
There’s nothing of so infinite vexation As man’s own thoughts.
~ John Webster, The White Devil
I hope you’re ready to get pissed off. The other day I saw a graphic on facebook which said:
Modern Slaves Are Not in Chains, They’re in Debt.
And it appeared that most of those leaving comments were unhesitatingly agreeing with the idea. This little “truism,” however, snagged my attention because of the uneasy feeling it gave me.
Denzel’s Prophecy
IT’S NOT WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT YOU …
… it’s what you do about what they say about you. Here’s proof – Denzel Washington’s commencement speech at Dillard University.
A Message to Garcia
One evening, nearly 120 years ago, a man named Elbert Hubbard had something on his mind. He sat down and wrote a 1500 word op-ed piece for the magazine he edited. Nothing special about that.
But those few pages – what Hubbard himself considered a literary trifle – swept round the world, carried from one person to the next, to the next.
