This World, Our Legacy

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

This land, this water, this air, this planet -
this is our legacy to our young.
- Paul Tsongas

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow,
we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology.
We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created,
not just as it looked when we got through with it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

Consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet.
We all breathe the same air.
We all cherish our children's future.
And we are all mortal.
- John F. Kennedy

Further reading: Our Grandchildren's Planet

Your Legacy - Making a Difference

Reverence

For Our Children

Forgiving Sets You Free

Forgiveness is an act of self-love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope

Forgiveness is unlocking the door
to set someone free
and realizing you were the prisoner!
- Max Lucado

I can only have peace of mind
when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky

It is not easy to forgive,
but make the effort again and again.
Nothing else you can ever do in life
will repay you as richly as forgiving
and loving those you have called enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Forgiveness Releases the Past

Treat ALL with Goodness

Are You a Prisoner?

The Futility of Regret

Overcoming Difficulties

Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

Further reading: Difficulties Offer Opportunities

Why is This Happening?

Choosing to be Positive

Beyond Failure

Living Your Principles

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton

Ability without honor is useless.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- Aristotle

The most gullible are those who are blown about by the latest popular fad.
Those who think for themselves are protected from deception.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Aesop's Fables: The Miller, His Son, and the Ass

Your Choices Determine Everything

What is Honor? Is there a place for Honor today?

Tell The Whole Truth

What You've Always Done

If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Anthony Robbins

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life repeats itself mindlessly.
Unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel.
- Osho

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living,
new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
- Henry Van Dyke

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

Persistence only takes you so far.
Then you need to try a different approach.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Our Habits

Your Whole Toolkit

Flexibility is Key to Progress

Cheer for Endings

A Better Plan