Handbook for the Soul

To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said,
“The way I change my life is to act as if I’m the person I want to be.”
This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone.
                                              Benjamin Shield Handbook for the Soul

Stephen Covey

If life were a painting, and you were an artist;
What would you paint?
-Stephen Covey

Willie Wonka

Never, never doubt

what no one is sure about.

-Willie Wonka

Ben Franklin’s thirteen moral virtues

The thirteen moral virtues listed by Benjamin Franklin in his Autobiography:

1. Temperance. Eat not to Dullness. Drink not to Elevation.

2. Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself. Avoid trifling Conversation.

3. Order. Let all your Things have their Places. Let each Part of your Business have its Time.

4. Resolution. Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

5. Frugality. Make no Expense but to do good to others or yourself: i.e. Waste nothing.

6. Industry. Lose no Time. Be always employ’d in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary Actions.

7. Sincerity. Use no hurtful Deceit. Think innocently and justly; and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

8. Justice. Wrong none, by doing Injuries or omitting the Benefits that are your Duty.

9. Moderation. Avoid Extremes. Forbear resenting Injuries so much as you think they deserve.

10. Cleanliness. Tolerate no Uncleanness in Body, Clothes or Habitation.

11. Tranquility. Be not disturbed at Trifles, or at Accidents common or unavoidable.

12. Chastity. Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dullness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another’s Peace or Reputation.

13. Humility. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

Also…

The Morning Question, What Good shall I do this Day?

The Evening Question, What Good have I done today?

A Course In Miracles

You can wait, delay, paralyze yourself,
or reduce your creativity almost to nothing. But you cannot abolish it. You can
destroy your medium of communication, but not your potential.
…-A Course In Miracles pg. 30

Robyn Benincasa

Commitment starts where the fun stops.

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. – Thomas Edison

Sylvester Stallone

Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life.
But it ain’t about how hard you can hit.
It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

Taken from the movie Rocky Balboa
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Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. -Teddy Roosevelt

Shape Your Destiny

A person cannot directly choose his circumstances,

But he can choose his thoughts,

And so indirectly, yet surely,

Shape his circumstances.

– James Allen