Bumper Sticker Wisdom

"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power." -Rene Decartes

"Everything we here is an opinion, not fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." -Marcus Arelius

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."-Ernest Hemingway

" To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead."-Miyamata Musashi

"Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: some things are within you control and some things are not." - Epictetus

"If it's endurable then endure it. Stop complaining!"-Marcus Arelieus

We didnt drop a wisdom this week. The ending of this episode took an emotional and powerful turn. Check it out!

"Do not seek to follow in the foot steps of the wise. Seek what they sought." Matsuo Boshe

"Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions-not outside." - Marcus Arelius

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world does not know, often times we call a man cold when he is only sad." - Henry Longfellow

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear."-Rumi

"It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fools paradise." Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity. If you need a witness be your own."-Epictetus

"The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute; the man who doesn't ask is a fool for life"-Confucius

"Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud"-Maya Angelou

"Success should always call for showing greater kindness, generosity, and justice; only people lost in the darkness treat it as occasion for greater greed."-Cyrus the Great

"I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become."-Carl Jung

"Good people are good because they have come to wisdom through failure." Unknonw

"Don't be afraid to start over again. This time you're not starting from scratch, you're starting from experience."-Unknown"Real growth starts when you're tired of your own shit."-Unknown

"My prayer is that when I die, all of hell rejoices that I am out of the fight!"-C.S. Lewis

"People do not seem to understand that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You cannot save people. You can only love them." Anais Nin

Show respect to people even when they don't deserve it. Respect is a reflection of your character, not theirs.

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."-Rumi

"Tenacity is the ability to hang on when letting go appears most attractive"-unknown

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."Bruce Lee

"If it costs your peace it is too expensive."- Paulo Coelho"Those who are hardest to love need it the most." -Socrates

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snow ball, the further I am rolled, the more I gain.-Susan B. Anthony

I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that wont work. Thomas Edison

"The wise person doesn't give the right answer, but poses the right question." - Claude Levi-Strauss

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.-Edith Wharton

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility of our future."-George Bernard Shaw

"Be so happy that when other people see you they become happy too."-Unknown

"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."-Anette Funicello

You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it and that makes you ready.

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."-Mother Teresa

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."-Margaret Thatcher

"The two most important days in your life are the day your born and the day you find out why." - Mark Twain

Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.

"Many receive advice, only the few profit from it."-Harper Lee

"If there is not struggle, there is no progress."Frederick Douglas

"All you life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate...I choose love."Johnny Cash

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.Robert Louis Stevenson

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow. Ralph Ellison

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.Abraham Maslow

Tanner jumped into the lab today to fill in for Jason who is out for a couple of weeks. We had a lot of great conversation.

Big conversation on forgiveness. It's a broad topic on forgiving others as well as ourselves and the vastness of God's forgiveness. This is also the first time we have had a female perspective under the hood and we slightly celebrate getting half way to our goal of 52 episodes this year.

Surround yourselves with people who fight for you in rooms you're not in!

Join us as we lean in to the battle!