Friendship - deep oneness that comes through a mutual journey, to the same horizon
— Tim Keller
You shall not go out with haste, … for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard
— Isaiah 52:12 For the coming new year, I figure, reading this verse for this turn of another year. I’m reflective, living now, and hopeful.
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.
— Mother Teresa
A leader isn’t good because he’s right. They’re good because they’re willing to learn and to trust
— Gen. Stanely McChrystal (US Army ret.)
I wonder if this is what is happening in Thailand, for those hardcore bikers.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
— Mother Teresa
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the absence of self.
— When I think about courage, I realize how much it is not so much about fear, and overcoming it, but rather how much it is about our selves, and over coming ourselves. Medal of Honor recipients, seem to carry on that selflessness even when they are presented the award. In all honesty, in those instances where there were loss of life, any MOH recipient will gladly give their own life for another - selfless courage.
Imagine the disparity. People in other countries, consume less, and in some cases are probably healthier. While Americans, are over feed, there are those who are barely feed. Just food for thought.
Photographer Peter Menzel’s book, Hungry Planet, features families photographed with a week’s worth of food.
Oh, the contrast.
Crossfitting in the hood! This place has got to be somewhere in some slum in Nirobi. Okay maybe not… nonetheless that 160kg on the bar from what it looks like.
I can’t believe in a place like that, the guy has lifting shoes on.
I want to start a crossfit community in the slums somewhere. This picture proves you can do it!
