“Real growth happens when we stop saying, ‘That’s just the way I am.’ and begin asking, ‘Who do I want to become?’”
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“Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. Most putts don’t drop. Most beef is tough. Most children grow up to be just people. Most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration. Most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Most beaches are patrolled by Portuguese men-o’-war.
Life is like an old time rail journey–delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.”
-Jenkins Lloyd Jones, “Big Rock Candy Mountains,” The Deseret News, June 12, 1973
Then quoted, later, by President Gordon B. Hinckley
“Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I’ll show you a man who can’t get his pants on.”
–Joe E. Lewis
(Although, I also saw it attributed to Arthur K. Watson)
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
–Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
Also erroneously dispersed as:
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
-Carl Jung
“Don’t get me wrong; I can be snarky, and cynical, and cuss, and all those fun things –
“But you don’t have to be a saint to do a little good now and then.”
–Stuart Perkins, in the podcast “Sharing the Heart of the Matter” (@ 9:15)
“If there is one life lesson I have painfully and slowly learned
It’s there is no turning back on the bridges you have burned.”
-Obbverse, “Looking back through the past, darkly.”
“You can’t create chaos in the lives of others and expect peace to come to yours. No matter what they did or how you feel, causing hurt to others will never bring healing to you.”
“If your compassion does not include yourself it is incomplete.”
–Jack Kornfield, Buddha’s Little Instruction Book, pp 28
“Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn’t help if you’re ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.”
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.
“The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life.”
-Martin Luther King, jr., Strength to Love, chapter 3
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