Virtues

You know, “nothing ventured, nothing won” is true in every hour. It is the fiber of every experience that signs itself into memory. — John Neville Figgis (1866-1919) Philosopher This week’s qualities can be taken too far thus you need other qualities to be added to your repertoire in order to keep them in check. What … Read more

The ideals which have lighted me on my way, and time after time given me courage to face life cheerfully, have been truth, goodness, and beauty. — Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Physicist ‘Tis the season. The hecticness of the holidays require and result in an interesting pair of qualities. In order to get through them we … Read more

These are the things I learned in kindergarten. Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for … Read more

To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life. — Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Author Many of us believe the future holds new and wondrous things, clearer ideas, and more profound understanding of ideals. Some think it will be more of the same in … Read more

I will do my best to be honest; to be fair; to help where I am needed; to be cheerful; to be friendly and considerate; to be a sister to other Girl Scouts; to respect authority; to use resources wisely; to protect and improve the world around me and to show respect for myself and … Read more

To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life. — Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Author Many of us believe the future holds new and wondrous things, clearer ideas, and more profound understanding of ideals. Some think it will be more of the same in … Read more

He who attains his ideal, by that very fact transcends it. — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) Philosopher As we Mature we gain a more accurate idea of Riches. We certainly need to appreciate the physical value of material things: nature, travel, comfort, & health. And new ideas, entertainment, & interesting discussions are mentally stimulating. Yet … Read more

Human efforts [are] cumulative, something in every effort [is] preserved and added to the whole. — Fifty Degrees Below Zero, Kim Stanley Robinson (1952-) This week’s qualities are Aplomb and Fortified. They have in common a certain poise. You may be wrong. Take that as a given. But more likely you are right in at … Read more

Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. — Abraham Lincoln (1806-1865) 16th U.S. President We Maneuver through life with stumbles, fits, and starts. But we do move, we grow, we become better than we are — and occasionally our choices are Stellar. Peace, Jim           STELLAR … Read more

New reasons, new arguments, new motives . . . all can lead to new goals – new aspirations. — David Brin (1950 – ) Existence, American Author Even if someone has looked into the unknown before you, each of us is a Pioneer when we look at it for the first time. We find out … Read more