Children who are well taught were trained to consider the happiness of others before their own: to offer them the most comfortable seat the choicest fruit, the best tidbit, and so on; and also to do everything, even the most trivial acts, in the right way. And these two things - unselfishness and Continue Reading
Becoming a better you (Reflection)
When a man aspires to nobler heights of achievement and sets about the realization of his ideal, he commences to refine his nature; and the purer a man makes himself within, the more refined, gracious, and gentle will be his outward demeanor. Read, Think and then Act. Until next Continue Reading
Your work
Let us rejoice in our work; let us rejoice that we have the strength and capacity for work, and let us increase that strength and capacity by unremitting labor. Whatever our work may be, it is noble and will be perceived by the world as noble, if we perform it in a noble spirit. The virtuous Continue Reading
Becoming a better you (Pain or Pleasure)
When the mind is possessed by passion or paralyzed with grief, it has lost the power of judgment, it cannot weigh and consider, it does not perceive the relative values of things by which it is disturbed; awake and acting, it yet moves in a nightmare which holds its faculties in thrall. Read, Continue Reading
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