Courage vs Honor

"Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or a mistake, but you’re not supposed to question adults, or your coach, or your teacher because they make the rules. Maybe they know best but maybe they don’t. It all depends on who you are, where you come from. Didn’t at least one of the six hundred guys think about giving up and joining with the other side? I mean, Valley of Death, that’s pretty salty stuff. That’s why courage is tricky. Should you always do what others tell you to do? Sometimes you might not even know why you’re doing something. I mean, any fool can have courage. But honor, that’s the real reason you either do something or you don’t. It’s who you want to be. If you die trying for something important then you have both honor and courage and that’s pretty good. I think that’s what the writer was saying; that you should try for courage and hope for honor. And maybe even pray that the people telling you what to do have some, too." The Blind Side the movie Michael Oher

Lift yourself

"If you want to lift
yourself up, lift up
someone else."
Booker T. Washington

Steering

"He is the best sailor who can steer
within fewest points of the wind,
and exact a motive power out of
the greatest obstacles."
Henry David Thoreau

Obstacles

"Obstacles are those frightful
things you see when you take
your eyes off the goal."
Author Unknown

Courage

"Courage is resistance to fear,
mastery of fear--not
absence of fear."
Mark Twain

Fear

"No passion so effectually robs
the mind of all its powers of
acting and reasoning as fear."
Edmund Burke

Tomorrow

Everything I Do...
Everything I say...
Changes the world in some small way.
...Am I making it better?...

What will I do today that will matter tomorrow?

Smile

"If you're not using your smile,
you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook."
Les Giblin

Hero

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life
to something bigger than oneself."
Joseph Campbell

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength
to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."
Christopher Reeve

Muisc to my ears

"Music is only love looking for words."
Lawrence Durrell

mental wellness

"The ability to be in the present moment
is a major component of mental wellness."
Abraham Maslow

The Now

"There is never time in the future
in which we will work out our salvation.
The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now."
James Baldwin

Virtue

“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”
—George Washington

"How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey
if you take the road to another man's city?"
Thomas Merton

The Great Debaters

We do what we have to do so we can do what we want to do.

Dr. Mardy Grothe

"If you want to have love in your life,
don't forget to put some life in your love."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth."

Virginia Woolf

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself
you cannot tell it about other people."

Henry David Thoreau

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

Thomas Carlyle

"If what you have done is unjust,
you have not succeeded."

Rita Mae Brown

"If the world were a logical place
men would ride side-saddle"