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“The hardest lesson I’ve had to learn as an adult is the relentless need to keep going, no matter how shattered I feel inside.” This truth is both raw and universal. Life doesn’t pause when our hearts are heavy, our minds are fractured, or our spirits feel like they’re unraveling. It keeps moving—unrelenting, unapologetic—demanding that […]
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“That’s the way with a cat, you know — any cat; they don’t give a damn for discipline. And they can’t help it, they’re made so. But it ain’t really insubordination, when you come to look at it right and fair — it’s a word that don’t apply to a cat. A cat ain’t ever […]
Continue ReadingIn 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond – and his response is magnificent: “Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta: I thank you for your friendly letters. You […]
Continue ReadingThere was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he won the award for the best grown corn. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. “How can you afford to share […]
Continue Reading[Found on Facebook] The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned round to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that […]
Continue ReadingCopied from a Facebook post. “I asked a friend who has crossed 70 & is heading towards 80 what sort of changes he is feeling in himself. He sent me the following: 1. After loving my parents, my siblings, my spouse, my children and my friends, I have now started loving myself. 2. I have […]
Continue Reading40 phrases to your sons and daughters so they can be more resilient, successful, and confident in life. [From Facebook]
Continue ReadingAt a Touchdown Club meeting many years ago, Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant told the following story: “I had just been named the new head coach at Alabama and was off in my old car down in South Alabama recruiting a prospect who was supposed to have been a pretty good player, and I was having […]
Continue ReadingA father said to his daughter: You graduated with honors, here is a car that I acquired many years ago. But before I give it to you, take it to the used car lot downtown and tell them I want to sell it and see how much they offer you.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The daughter went to the […]
Continue Reading“I want to believe freely and be a slave to the authority of no one, of a council, a university, or pope. I will confidently confess what appears to me to be true whether it has been asserted by a Catholic or a heretic, whether it has been approved or reproved by a council.” Martin […]
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