Monthly Archives: February 2018

Excellence

February 28, 2018 by Jim Brooks

“Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by ‘doing what comes naturally’; and they don’t stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.”

John W. Gardner

Books

February 27, 2018 by Jim Brooks

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Inspiration

February 26, 2018 by Jim Brooks

“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Libraries

February 25, 2018 by Jim Brooks

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”

Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

Words

February 24, 2018 by Jim Brooks

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

Rudyard Kipling

Loving Someone

February 23, 2018 by Jim Brooks

“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”

Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

Love

February 22, 2018 by Jim Brooks

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.”

Kahlil Gibran

Everything Is Possible

February 21, 2018 by Jim Brooks

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”

Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

Obstacles

February 20, 2018 by Jim Brooks

“When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.”

Zig Ziglar

Equality

February 20, 2018 by Jim Brooks

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”

Timothy Leary