Tag: legacy

  • Believe You Are Happy

    It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. Dale Carnegie The scale for happiness is so often placed on possessions. People believe they will be happy when they own the biggest house…

  • Champion

    In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King, Jr. Daily we encounter situations that disturb us in some way. It may be a personal affront or simply a story related to us via a friend, social media, or network news. It elicits…

  • Blessings

    May you live every day of your life. Jonathan Swift This sounds like the beginning of an Irish blessing. Having a small amount of exposure to the writings of Mr. Swift, the similarity was more than likely intentional. But imagine the implications of that experience, to live every day of your life. There is no…

  • Live

    Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do the worst kind of suffering. Paulo Coelho Today is the day we live. Tomorrow is the day we seek. Yesterday is the day we remember. If we spend too much time seeking or remembering, we miss living. Waiting for the future, is difficult…

  • Try

    Always do what you are afraid to do. — Ralph Waldo Emerson All too often fear rules us. It stops us from trying to do the things we dream about doing because we fear the judgment of failure. Making the decision to do rather than dream will quell the fear. If we do and fail,…

  • The Wind

    I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean Life is simple. You set a course and stick to it. Sometimes, often, winds blow to drive us off course. It is the natural rhythm of life. We define a destination and obstacles appear…

  • Today

    Welcome to today. Another day. Another chance. Feel free to change. Unknown We have the opportunity to live. Tomorrow is not guaranteed. Treat it like the gift it is. Take the chance to live. Change the things about you that need it. It is not difficult. It only takes effort.

  • Failure is Good

    What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Vincent Van Gogh How many are paralyzed by the fear of the attempt? What greatness is never achieved because someone did not try? Where would life be? We are called to greatness. We are called to live. Life is experienced. It is experiences.…

  • Scraps

    I look around myself and I found scraps of incomplete thoughts jotted down on paper or in a document. It seems like my mind cannot commit to completing a thought or formulating an idea or a transition phrase. I think it is more of an indication of where I am as a person. I am…

  • Done enough?

    I found a memory today on Facebook. The memory focused on the NCAA March Madness from 2021 when the inequity of the facilities for the teams competing in the Men’s and Women’s tournament. The article I posted that day redirected my friends to a quote from Dawn Staley, Head Coach, University of South Carolina Women’s…