“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the things that upset him.” Wow, isn’t that a wonderful quote. This is apparently a quote (perhaps a bit modified? or simply translated differently?) by Adlai Stevenson. Though, I ran across it here:
“Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.” ~ David Steindl-Rast, Jesus and Lao Tzu: The Parallel Sayings (via Blue Lips)
Via en email I recently received: Here’s a simple, yet powerful way to immediately make your life more rewarding: Move away from the things that drain you and move toward those things that empower and fulfill you. Begin to take notice, as you go through the day, of which is which. When you take the time to look, it’s easy to distinguish the things that lift you up from the things that bring you down. Consider, for example, resentment, something you’ve probably learned to experience whenever you feel you’ve been wronged. When you think about it, there is really no … Continue reading
