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| ac8a6b4 | There are two antagonistic elements of society in America," Seward had proclaimed, "freedom and slavery. Freedom is in harmony with our system of government and with the spirit of the age, and is therefore passive and quiescent. Slavery is in conflict with that system, with justice, with humanity, and is therefore organized, defensive, active, and perpetually aggressive." Free labor, he said, demands universal suffrage and the widespread "d.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 1eca8b0 | In fact, Lincoln and Stanton had already heard similar complaints. After dispatching investigators to look into General Grant's behavior, however, they had concluded that his drinking did not affect his unmatched ability to plan, execute, and win battles. A memorable story circulated that when a delegation brought further rumors of Grant's drinking to the president, Lincoln declared that if he could find the brand of whiskey Grant used, he .. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| f57e3b0 | Lincoln replied that he was more than willing to die, but that he had "done nothing to make any human being remember that he had lived, and that to connect his name with the events transpiring in his day and generation and so impress himself upon them as to link his name with something that would redound to the interest of his fellow man was what he desired to live for." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 5bce301 | It is not until one visits old, oppressed, suffering Europe, that he can appreciate his own government, "he observed, "that he realizes the fearful responsibility of the American people to the nations of the whole earth, to carry successfully through the experiment... That men are capable of self-government." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 4c0e72c | For your penance, say two Hail Marys, three our Fathers, and," he added, with a chuckle, "say a special prayer for the Dodgers." | humor | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| 275caa4 | With public sentiment, nothing can fail," Abraham Lincoln said, "without it nothing can succeed." Such a leader is inseparably linked to the people. Such leadership is a mirror in which the people see their collective reflection." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 795677a | Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall argued in another context many years later, the "grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 7e998f5 | Sometimes, sitting in the park with my boys, I imagine myself back at Ebbets Field, a young girl once more in the presence of my father, watching the players of my youth on the grassy fields below--Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges. There is magic in these moments, for when I open my eyes and see my sons in the place where my father once sat, I feel an invisible bond among our three generations, an anchor of loyalty a.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| f519dd3 | It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed," Abigail Adams wrote to her son John Quincy Adams in the midst of the American Revolution, suggesting that "the habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues." -- | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 22fad88 | grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 4c46756 | His success in dealing with the strong egos of the men in his cabinet suggests that in the hands of a truly great politician the qualities we generally associate with decency and morality--kindness, sensitivity, compassion, honesty, and empathy--can also be impressive political resources. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| e3d9f81 | Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition," he wrote. "I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet to be developed." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 609083e | If you're facing a problem, don't tell yourself that you can't do it. Convince yourself that you have the strength to deal with almost anything because of the way you were raised. And you do! Recognizing your core strengths is an important step toward having joie de vivre. You can count on better days to come because of the good days that came before. And you can find joy in the moment because you have the resiliency to overcome the problem.. | Ruth Westheimer | ||
| abe154c | Self-esteem can be defined as the state that exists when you are not arbitrarily haranguing and abusing yourself but choose to fight back against those automatic thoughts with meaningful rational responses. | David D. Burns | ||
| 39985cf | The problem, Augustine came to believe, is that if you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from it. To believe that you can be captain of your own life is to suffer the sin of pride. What is pride? These days the word "pride" has positive connotations. It means feeling good about yourself and the things associated with you. When we use it negatively, we think of the arrogant person, someo.. | David Brooks | ||
| f54f64c | ALL-OR-NOTHING THINKING: You see things in black-and-white categories. If your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure. | David D. Burns | ||
| 57cbc77 | But these abnormal emotions feel just as valid and realistic as the genuine feelings created by undistorted thoughts, so you automatically attribute truth to them. This is why depression is such a powerful form of mental black magic. | David D. Burns | ||
| 0ddc336 | When you compare losses, someone else's may seem greater or lesser than your own, but all losses are painful. If | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| 1674064 | are not accustomed to the emotional upheaval that accompanies a loss. People experience a wide array of emotions after a loss, from not caring to being on edge to feeling angry or sad about everything. We can go from feeling okay to feeling devastated in a minute without warning. We can have mood swings that are hard for anyone around us to comprehend, because even we don't understand them. | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| 17439de | En el interior de cada uno de nosotros hay una capacidad inimaginable para la bondad, para dar sin buscar recompensa, para escuchar sin hacer juicios, para amar sin condiciones. | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| 6235f73 | No se puede sanar al mundo sin sanarse primero a si mismo. | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| 69165a3 | We're expected to go back to work immediately, keep moving, to get on with our lives. But it doesn't work that way. We need time to move through the pain of loss. We need to step into it, really to get to know it, in order to learn | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| df67526 | But intellect does not inform matters of the heart. Regrets | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| 4a40606 | La vida es ardua. La vida es una lucha. La vida es como ir a la escuela; recibimos muchas lecciones. Cuanto mas aprendemos, mas dificiles se ponen las lecciones. | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| e23fed4 | The wholeness we seek lives here, with and within us, now, in reality. | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| ec0e6de | What lies behind us is nothing compared to what lies within us and ahead of us. | paraphrase | Stephen R. Covey | |
| f20c059 | He heard himself crying out: Never, never! Or was it: Verily I come, I come to you? He could not tell. Then as a flash from some other point of power there came to his mind another thought: Take it off! Take it off! Fool, take it off! Take off the Ring! The two powers strove in him. For a moment, perfectly balanced between their piercing points, he writhed, tormented. Suddenly he was aware of himself again. Frodo, neither the Voice nor the.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 41a2cad | Good morning! said Bilbo, and he meant it. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| d04e1cf | We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior and get to work on the root, the paradigms from which our attitudes and behaviors flow. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 7ee17ec | But the underlying chronic condition remains, and eventually new acute symptoms will appear. The more people are into quick fix and focus on the acute problems and pain, the more that very approach contributes to the underlying chronic condition. The way we see the problem is the problem. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 2a47781 | it is that a meaningful life is not a matter of speed or efficiency. It's much more a matter of what you do and why you do it, than how fast you get it done. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 0ea8917 | What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did it on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life? | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 5adea08 | Other parts of the personality approach were clearly manipulative, even deceptive, encouraging people to use techniques to get other people to like them, or to fake interest in the hobbies of others to get out of them what they wanted, or to use the "power look," or to intimidate their way through life." | Stephen R. Covey | ||
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| 96c214c | It's incredibly easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things. | preoccupation | Stephen R. Covey | |
| 48beef2 | You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| ec0a236 | In the words of Gandhi, "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them." | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 345009f | responsibility--"response-ability"--the ability to choose your response." | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 1c27385 | what we believe about ourselves and our purpose has a powerful impact on how we live, how we love, and what we learn. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 63d49bc | THE URGENCY ADDICTION Some of us get so used to the adrenaline rush of handling crises that we become dependent on it for a sense of excitement and energy. How does urgency feel? Stressful? Pressured? Tense? Exhausting? Sure. But let's be honest. It's also sometimes exhilarating. We feel useful. We feel successful. We feel validated. And we get good at it. Whenever there's trouble, we ride into town, pull out our six shooter, do the varmint.. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 941938a | This power of choice means that we are not merely a product of our past or of our genes; we are not a product of how other people treat us. They unquestionably influence us, but they do not determine us. We are self-determining through our choices. If we have given away our present to the past, do we need to give away our future also? | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| aa80fa3 | Proactive people make love a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world... Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions. Proactive people subordinate feeling to values. Love, the feeling, can be recaptured. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| d3606de | Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all three | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 418b43b | By accepting people you're not condoning their weakness or agreeing with their opinion; you're simply affirming their intrinsic worth. | Stephen R. Covey |