Monthly Archives: October 2018

The Great Opportunity is Where You Are

October 31, 2018 by Jim Brooks

“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”

John Burroughs

Literacy

October 30, 2018 by Jim Brooks

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

Mark Twain

Ideologies, Dreams, and Anguish

October 29, 2018 by Jim Brooks

“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”

Eugène Ionesco

Confidence

October 28, 2018 by Jim Brooks

“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”

Peter T. McIntyre

Success

October 27, 2018 by Jim Brooks

“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.”

Joe Girard

Freedom

October 26, 2018 by Jim Brooks

“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.”

Pope John Paul II

Wonder Often

October 25, 2018 by Jim Brooks

“If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come.”

Arapaho Proverb

Values

October 24, 2018 by Jim Brooks

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

J. Krishnamurti

Consistency

October 23, 2018 by Jim Brooks

“I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency – and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be “consistent,” unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.”

Mark Twain, Consistency Speech, 1887

Simplicity

October 22, 2018 by Jim Brooks

“From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti