“Selfishness sinks ships: friendships, partnerships, relationships, championships, even leaderships. Like an iceberg tearing through the hull of an ocean liner, selfishness will inevitably send all of those ships plummeting to the depths of the abyss. Selfishness sinks ships.”
“However, more important to all of that: the players played the game as a true team. There are many teams in baseball, but not all play as a team. Many merely play as a group of talented athletes, which is a huge difference over the course of a long season.”
Source: The Art of Sales Management: Lessons Learned on the Fly
“When we cuss each other out, call each other the vilest names on earth, and put each other down with thoughtless cruelty, it is the only way we know and the only language we have to express our ardent love for each other.”
Source: A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
“My team." A Spiritual Humanist cleaner, an old mobster, an addled swamp rat, and an angry food columnist.
"We'll get 'em next time," Garth said between coughs.
"Wasn't all your fault," Joey said, trying to get his shirttail up to his eyes.
Go team, Shane thought, and pointed them in the direction of the Defender.”
Source: Agnes and the Hitman
“My partner and I fully support one another. Lifting each other up to evolve into the highest versions of ourselves. We are the best teammates.”
Source: Esotericism With an Unconventional Soul: Exploring Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, and Mysticism
“So, yes, they fought, but I never imagined consequences. Parents didn't split up back then. They worked it out. They stayed on the team.”
Source: For One More Day
“It affirms that the approaching holiday is not simply a religious timeline or a commercial break, but a profound, fiercely defended expression of shared regional history, vibrant Cajun-Creole heritage, and an unwavering, incandescent joie de vivre that warms the dampest nights.”
Source: The Twelve Days of Bayou Christmas
“Ah, this feels just like the old times... I still miss you and the others, you know, and life at school and those times when two or more of us would sit up talking far too late into the night. Which is not to say I would give up my present life to return there, but... Well, even happy choices involve some sacrifice. And most of us, I suppose, would like to both have our cake and eat it if only it were possible”
Source: Simply Magic
“The Spirit is that element of transcendence, superiority, permanence, power, liberty, inner reality, creativity, harmony and synthesis in every manifestation, both individual and social. In people, therefore, the term ‘spiritual’ (to varying degrees) can be attributed to everything that compels them to transcend their selfish exclusiveness, fears, inertia and love of pleasure; everything that urges them to discipline, control and direct those untamed forces, instincts and emotions that seethe within; everything that induces the recognition of a greater, superior reality, social or ideal in nature, and to become one with it, extending the limits of the personality.”
Source: Transpersonal Development: The Dimension Beyond Psychosynthesis
“After several stages of individualistic austerity the foundation is made for universalism. So this individualistic austerity should not be considered as illusion. From this Causal body so many forms of gods and goddesses like Shiva, Krishna, Kali can be seen. This has two aspects. One, by self-exertion and another is spontaneous.”