"Take calculated risks. That is 
 quite different from being rash."
                                                    – George S. Patton

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin" - Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910, of Albanian descent. At the age of 12 she felt called by God to be a missionary. She became a nun at 21 after three years in a convent in Ireland, and went to teach at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta. She never saw her mother and sister again. She was affected her so deeply by the misery and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls that in 1948 she received permission to leave the convent school and dedicate herself to working among the penniless, destitute and dying in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she started an open-air school for slum children, and her life's work began. In 1950 she started her own order "The Missionaries of Charity", which became an International Religious Family by a decree of Pope Paul VI in 1965.

The Society of Missionaries has spread all over the world with the principal task to love and care for those nobody else was prepared to look after. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

                   "I get up. I walk. I fall down.
                    Meanwhile, I keep dancing."
                                                                        –  Rabbi Hillel

 

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." 
                                                                                  Oprah Winfrey

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
                                                                 - George Bernard Shaw

                       Yes-Yes or No-No

   I will confidently say "yes" to a richer, fuller experience of life. I will confidently say "no" to circumstances that do not lead to my highest good.

   With God's guidance, I am assured that whether my word is yes or no, I am taking the right action.

    "Let your word be 'Yes, Yes' or 'No, No.'"
                                                                      --Matthew 5:37

Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.
                                                                       – Admiral William Halsey

About Admiral William Halsey

American Admiral William "Bull" Halsey Jr. won a Navy Cross during World War I and led the Third Fleet against Japan in World War II. He was born in New Jersey in 1882. After serving on battleships and torpedo craft in World War I, he went back to school at age 52 to become a naval aviator. General MacArthur called Halsey the greatest fighting admiral of World War II. His motto was, "Hit hard, hit fast, hit often." The Japanese signed their surrender on his flagship. He died in 1959.

   When that little voice in my head starts judging me (or others), I have four answers to the voice:

   1. Big Deal!
   2. Who Cares?
   3. So What?
   4. Why Not?

If none of these work, there is one more:
      IDM (it don't matter)

                                           The Four Agreements Companion Book
                                                                               by
                                                                   Don Miguel Ruix
                                      

                 Nothing Fancy
          About The Instructions
                    For My Life

      "Rejoice always, pray without ceasing,
                               and 
          give thanks in all circumstances."

 

"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best."
                                                                                  – Doris Lessing

About Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing, the iconoclastic British author who writes both realistic literary novels and humanist science fiction, is best known for her book The Golden Notebook, an experimental novel about a blocked writer who jots down her thoughts in a set of notebooks. She was born in Iran in 1919 to British parents and grew up in Rhodesia. She went through a communist phase but became disenchanted after witnessing the reality in the Soviet Union. She was awarded a Noble Prize in Literature in 2007. She has been married twice and has three children