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No Room for Condescending in Recovery
"Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up." – Jesse Jackson, African-American civil rights activist and Baptist minister (born 1941) Isn’t it amazing how sometimes we feel as if we’re better than others? While we may not knowingly exhibit this kind of condescending attitude, the truth is that it often shows on our [...]
You’ve Got Attitude – Actually, You Should
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." – Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during and after World War II, also journalist and author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 (1874-1965) How often have we heard someone say about another: "He (or she) has an attitude" and [...]
Reflections on Dreams and Dreaming
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." – Edgar Allan Poe, American author, poet, editor and literary critic, best-known as the author of the classic poem The Raven (1809-1849) How important should we consider dreams in our everyday life, particularly those of us who [...]
Create Your Own Opportunities
"A wise man will create more opportunities than he finds." – Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, essayist, best-known as the catalyst for the scientific revolution through what was called the Baconian method of inductive reasoning (1561-1626) If we’re waiting for life to reveal itself to us, we’re engaging in a holding pattern. Like a plane [...]
Cheerfulness and Serenity
"Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." – Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet, playwright and politician (1672-1719) Wouldn’t we all like to be cheerful each and every day? Does such a way of greeting the world seem like an impossibility, especially if we [...]
