Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.
Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.
Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith.
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education
The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.
There’s no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them.
People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Through real-life stories, Kristin Kaufman illustrates the core idea of being present in the moment and opening oneself up to new ideas in order to become an authentic leader in life.
The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.
Courage isn’t absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are — or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.
I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.
Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It’s not logical: it’s psychological. And it’s very real.
I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level ofthinking we were at when we created them. – Albert Einstein
to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.
The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It’s not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.
People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.
All the well-meaning advice in the world won’t amount to a hill of beans if we’re not even addressing the real problem.
Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people’s definition of you.
It is character that communicates most eloquently.
But until a person can say deeply and honestly, “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,” that person cannot say, “I choose otherwise.
A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It’s the testing point of our character and competence.
How you treat the one reveals how youregard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible.
You must be open and influenceable; then ironically, you will also discover an increase in your own power to influence
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be andhe will become as he can and should be.
Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.
People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Are you willing to do that?
Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.
Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.
To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.