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How To Recognize Opportunity
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." – Thomas Edison, American inventor and businessman, best-known as the inventor of the light bulb, among many other inventions that revolutionized modern life (1847-1931) If we didn’t know who Thomas Edison was, the quote about opportunity here might be [...]
Follow Your Dreams
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls." – Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known as the author of The Hero With a Thousand Faces (1904-1987) Don’t we all know about walls that hem us in? Before we entered recovery, we may have felt trapped in [...]
On Using Our Eyes
"The whole secret in the study in nature lies in learning how to use one’s eyes." – George Sand, French novelist whose birth name was Amandine Aurore Lucille Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant, best known as her pseudonym, George Sand (1804-1876) We look at the world around us, but do we really see? If we do [...]
Thoughts about Peace
"Peace begins with a smile." – Mother Theresa, Roman Catholic nun, better known as the humanitarian nun of Calcutta, often called the Saint of the Gutters, won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979, beatified following her death by Pope John Paul II and given the title of Blessed Theresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) Many of [...]
On Life’s Lessons
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, lecturer and philosopher, led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century (1803-1882) We’re all students, whether we think of ourselves as such or not. Does this seem like a farfetched statement? It really isn’t, and [...]
