personal development

Plan To Be Surprised

Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised. ~ Dan Burns

And indeed there will be time to wonder, ‘Do I dare?’, and ‘Do I dare?’. ~ T. S. Eliot

It is what I was born for- to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world- to instruct myself over and over… ~Mary Oliver

If you continue to carry the bricks from your past, you will end up building the same house.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. ~ Walter Bagehot

Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. ~ Thomas Merton

Try to notice someone’s eye color when you meet them. People will like you more for the slightly increased eye-contact.

I promise you that as you consistently give the Lord a generous portion of your time, He will multiply the remainder. ~ Russell M. Nelson

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him. ~ Galileo Galilei

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. ~ Milton Berle