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Volume 30, #5 January 2015

KIDS & TEACHERS Jim Rohn

“Kids don’t lack capacity,only teachers.”

PATH OF CONVICTION J. Kenneth Blackwell

“In life make sure you follow thepath of conviction, rather than the pathof convenience.”

SECRET OF WINNING Denis Waitley

“Success in life is not reserved for the talent-ed, and it’s not in the high IQ, nor in the gift atbirth. It’s not always in ability, or in the bestequipment.

Success is almost totally dependent upondrive and persistence – the extra energy requiredto make another effort, to try another approach,to take a new tack. This is the secret of winning.”

ON POLITICS Russell Kirk

“Politics is the art of the possible, not the artof the ideal.”

MERTON ON PRAYER Source Unknown

“Prayer is basically response. In prayer weare continually responding to the questions ofwho we are and who God is. We’re working herewith reality – the reality of our own identity andfreedom and its relationship to God.

Prayer has but one function: to bring us to apersonal awareness of our oneness with God inChrist…We will achieve awareness only ifwe discover our true self, the ground ofour being…Seeking God with our wholeheart is finding God within us; andwhere we are, there God is.”

GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY Orison Swett Marden

“The golden opportunity you are seeking isin yourself. It is not in your environment; it is notin luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in

yourself.”

I DREAM A WORLD Langston Hughes

“I dream a world where manNo other man will scorn,Where love will bless the earthAnd peace its paths adorn.I dream a world where allWill know sweet freedom's way,

Where greed no longer saps the soulNor avarice blights our day.A world I dream where black or white,Whatever race you be,Will share the bounties of the earthAnd every man is free,Where wretchedness will hang its headAnd joy, like a pearl,Attends the needs of all mankind – Of such I dream, my world!”

LONG-TERM VISION Kouses & PoznerThe Leadership Challenge, p. 113

“The first task in enlisting others is to findout what your constituents have in common. Nomatter how grand the dream of the individualvisionary, if others do not see in it the possibilityof realizing their own hopes and desires, they willnot follow. It is incumbent upon the leader toshow others how they too will be served by thelong-term vision of the future.”

VALUE OF TIME Rabbi Abraham J. TwerskiGrowing Each Day, Cheshvan 26

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“Time should be precious to us. Itis irreplaceable; unlike money, a mo-

ment that is lost can never be regained.Still, we protect our money far more thanour time.

Absolute idleness consists of doing nothing.But there is also a relative idleness, when we oc-cupy ourselves with things of lesser value.

If what we are doing at any given time is notthe most important thing at that moment, some-

thing else must be even more important. If thatis so, why are we neglecting what is more import-ant and spending our time on what is less impor-tant? Would we be so foolish to spend our timeearning less money when we could just as well beearning more?

Today I shall…try to realize the value oftime, and make every moment count.”

EVERYONE IS A LEADER Chris LowneyHeroic Leadership, p. 17

“Everyone is a leader, and everyone is lead-ing all the time – sometimes in immediate, dra-matic, and obvious ways, more often in subtle,hard-to-measure ways, but leading nonetheless.”

WORLD DAY OF PEACE, 2004 St. John Paul II

“The Church…has always taughtand continues today to teach a verysimple axiom: peace is possible. In-deed, the Church does not tire of re-peating that peace is a duty. It mustbe built on the four pillars indicatedby Saint John XXIII in his EncyclicalPacem in Terris: truth, justice, loveand freedom. A duty is thus imposedupon all those who love peace: that ofteaching these ideals to new genera-tions, in order to prepare a betterfuture for all mankind.

…[F]or the establishment of truepeace in the world, justice must findits fulfilment in charity.…Justice and love some-times appear to be opposing forces. In fact theyare but two faces of a single reality, two dimen-sions of human life needing to be mutuallyintegrated.…

For this reason I have often remindedChristians and all persons of good will that for-giveness is needed for solving the problems ofindividuals and peoples. There is no peace with-out forgiveness!

BETTER THAN A BELL Franklin Public Libraryhttp://www.town.franklin.ma.us/Pages/FranklinMA_Library/libraryhistory

In 1778, when the town was incorporated,the city fathers designated the name Exeter, Mas-sachusetts changed to Franklin in honor of Dr.Benjamin Franklin. In return Franklin was askedto donate a bell for the town’s church steeple.

Acknowledging that “sense” was preferableto “sound”, Dr. Franklin responded with an offerof books for the use of the town’s residents.

When the volumes arrived, a great controversyarose over who should be allowed to use them.

On November 20th, 1790, those attendingFranklin’s town meeting voted to lend the booksto all Franklin inhabitants free of charge. Thisvote established the Franklin collection as thefirst public library in the United States.

UNLEASH IMAGINATION William Arthur Ward

“Nothing limits achievement like smallthinking; nothing expands possibilities like un-leashed imagination.”

MATURE WISDOM Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The older I get, the more wisdom I find inthe ancient rule of taking first things first – a

process which often reduces the mostcomplex human problems to man-ageable proportions.”

PURPOSE OF LIFE Leo C. Rosten

“I cannot believe the purpose oflife is to be happy. The purpose of lifeis to be useful, to be responsible, tobe honorable, to be compassionate.”

YES, TO THE BEST Zig Ziglar

“I’ve got to say ‘no’ to the goodso I can say ‘yes’ to the best.”

I AM THE NEW YEAR BIBLE ILLUSTRATOR

“I am the new year. I am an unspoiled pagein your book of time.

I am your next chance at the art of living. Iam your opportunity to practice what you havelearned about life during the last twelve months.

All that you sought and didn’t find is hiddenin me, waiting for you to search it but with moredetermination.

All the good that you tried for and didn’tachieve is mine to grant when you have fewerconflicting desires.

All that you dreamed but didn’t dare to do,all that you hoped but did not will, all the faiththat you claimed but did not have – these slumb-er lightly, waiting to be awakened by the touch ofa strong purpose.

I am your opportunity to renew your allegi-ance to Him who said, ‘Behold, I make all thingsnew.’”