"Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.” -Roger Von Oech "We don’t stop playing because we grow old;...

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart." -Fyodor Dostoyevsky Passion is a word that we hear...

"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no...

"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing poorly." -G. K. Chesterton There is a Taoist tale, recorded first by Zhuangzi in the 4th...

Time is very slow for those who wait, very fast for those who are scared, very long for those who lament, very short for those who...

"He who laugh last, children, is he who win." -Bob Marley In his book, De Partibus Animalium (Parts of Animals), Aristotle attempted to...

"Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”​ -Maya...

equanimity : (noun) evenness of mind and spirit, especially in the face of adversity; steadiness; balance. Sun Tzu, perhaps the most...

"Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "For last year’s words belong to last...

"Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold." -Joseph Campbell "The wound is the place where the light enters you." -Rumi I...

“To think too much is a disease.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky “Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.” – Mark Twain The other day I was...

Arthur C. Clarke's 3 Laws: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right....

What began as one became two, Heaven and Earth, Me and You, Sadness and Mirth, Right and Wrong, Worst and Best, Silence and Song, Then...

“If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is...

"We are what we repeatedly do, therefore, excellence is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle There is something that you are tip-toe-ing...

“I believe the cost of life is death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift.” -Bill Hicks Every cut and...

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." -Buddhist Proverb Someone we trust betrays us; we realize we aren't as healthy as we hoped;...

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." -Friedrich Nietzsche What are we all doing here? Seriously, what's the point of...

We have a full moon coming up on July 3rd. Other than looking at it, I’ve never taken the time to be more intentional about celebrating...

"When does a joke become a dad joke? When it's full groan." -Anonymous In last week's post I asked two questions concerning the increase...