Tag Archive: Character

NEGATIVE PEOPLE

I intensely dislike being around negative people because they make me feel as bad as they do.  I only want to be around people who are upbeat and have a positive outlook on… Continue reading

A Good Place to Start

Character

Educate to Have Values

“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better that the wealth of the ignorant” Epictetus

The One You Feed

An old Grandfather said to his grandson, who came to him with anger at a friend who had done him an injustice, “Let me tell you a story. I too, at times, have… Continue reading

The Gift of Age

“The greatest gift of age is perspective.  Perspective is wisdom.  You only get it by living and then looking back and reflecting” Michael J. Bradley, EdD Photo:  Thomas D. Mangelsen    

The Truth is always There

The only people mad at you for speaking the truth are those who are living a lie.  Unknown The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the… Continue reading

If You Live Your Life the Right Way…

“If you live your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself…your dreams will come to you”  Randy Pausch

The Power of Unconditional Love

There is no power on earth like unconditional love.  If you offer it to your child, you are 90% of the way home.  To know you always can come back home is going… Continue reading

Love is the Definition of Success

“If your definition of success has little or no measure of love in it, get another definition.” ~Robert Holden