Thought of the Moment

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it myself.

- Joyce Maynard Read more

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.

The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life. Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during difficult times. Read more

People see what you feel about yourself. Read more

"Remember, a tiny grin of like-minded people around the globe gathered and working together with love for humanity will be like dust gathered together to become a mountain."

- Don Gibson Read more

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values—carefully thought about, selected and internalized values. Read more

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

- Oscar Wilde Read more

Art is the ability to convey that we are not alone.

- M. Night Shyamalan Read more

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love.

- The 5 Love Languages Read more