Quote of the Week

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” — Theodore Roosevelt

You can date the evolving life of the mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.” – Mary McCarthy

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” – Ralph Waldo

Rather than pick just one quote of the week, why not try several previous quotes of the week that all encourage us to get moving and bring about the change we want to see in the world.  This is going to be a fantastic and challenging week.  I’m ready to get started.  How about you?

Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.” – T. S. Eliot

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” – Rumi Choose to get to do something important for yourself, your organization, or your community this week and you’ll feel that river moving in you too. Why not try?

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.” – George Washington Happy 4th of July week! I’ll be fighting for truth while driving change.  How will you be spending your week?

When knowledge becomes impossible to acquire, then it is customary for us to turn decisions over to a higher authority, and like it or not, that is pretty much what most Americans have done…most of us rely on our government to distill the salient issues and act on our behalf, which, as we found out,

The other night I heard time stomping across the world…For once, I had a sense of movement as if time were really passing before me. This night the future came to me without any desire on my part…When certain things happen that we think ourselves powerless to resist, we sometimes jump in and help them

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It