“You will find that you are never nervous when you are trying to help someone else feel comfortable. William G. Alston”
Source: Four Keys to the Natural Anabolic State: The Pathway to Health, Fitness, Faith, and a Huge Competitive Edge
“Do not seek to fit in. Seek to excel. William G. Alston”
Source: Four Keys to the Natural Anabolic State: The Pathway to Health, Fitness, Faith, and a Huge Competitive Edge
“What I wear on the outside is determined by what resides on the inside. And it is my goal to wear kindness not because it looks good on me, but because it resides within me.”
“Sane leadership is the unshakeable confidence that people can be generous, creative, and kind. The leader’s role is to create the conditions for these qualities to be evoked and utilized to accomplish good work.”
Source: Restoring Sanity: Practices to Awaken Generosity, Creativity, and Kindness in Ourselves and Our Organizations
“Nobody will save yeu,
Some can't even save themselves”
“Sanity is an honest relationship with reality. Sanity is seeing clearly, free of our filters, judgments, biases. When we see what’s going on, then we can discern what actions might be useful. Sanity creates possibilities.”
Source: Restoring Sanity: Practices to Awaken Generosity, Creativity, and Kindness in Ourselves and Our Organizations
“in the bible, only the angels have wings, the rest of us have to wait to be rescued”
Source: Sexing the Cherry
“Regardless of what going on in your life, no matter how hurtful, and dark things seem, hold on to optimism. Wonder what wonderful thing will happen to you today? Leave your heart open to blessings, and spread your sunshine to others. They could be feeling down, and the sunshine that surrounds you could lift them up? In reflection, the kindness you share will always return your way. God bless.”
“We do horrible things to one another because we don't see the person it affects. If white people ever saw black people as human, they would see that slavery is unconscionable. We live in a world where we don't see the ramifications of what we do to others, because we don't live with them. It would be a whole lot harder for an investment banker to rip off people with subprime mortgages if he actually had to live with them. If we could see one another's pain and empathize with one another. it would never be worth it to us to commit the crimes in the first place.”
Source: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“Many years ago, I made up my mind that, even if a person is 95 percent bad, you focus on the 5 percent that's good and decent---that's what you hold on to.”
Source: Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals