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Sunday Inspiration: Humility
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
—John Wooden
Sunday Inspiration: Perseverance
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
—Michael Jordan
The World Needs Books!
Preach it, Madison!
Sunday Inspiration: Purpose
What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?
—George Eliot
Thanksgiving 2014
I’m thankful for
- Twenty years of marriage to the smartest, kindest, most wonderful woman in the world
- A healthy, happy, and mostly well-adjusted teenager
- The privilege of taking care of parents who have always taken care of me
- Able and dedicated coworkers
- A small but enthusiastic Taylor Smart fan club
- Homeowner’s insurance
- The end of political campaign ads for another two years
- The Academy for Classical Education
- Google Books
- The Bibb County Public Library
- Zydeco music
- Pepakura and the geniuses who design and build it
- The Christmas light show at Callaway Gardens
- The University of Kentucky men’s basketball team
- Indoor plumbing
- Faith
- Hope
- Love
What are you thankful for?
Sunday Inspiration: The Long Term
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
Sunday Inspiration: Books
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture, just get people to stop reading them.
—Ray Bradbury
Sunday Inspiration: Welcome to Life!
People will let you down—welcome to life. People will also lift you up, save you, love you, embrace you, teach you, and guide you. Welcome to life!
—Elle Febbo
Sunday Inspiration: Convictions
Doesn’t matter what the press says. Doesn’t matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn’t matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world – “No, you move.”
—Steve Rogers (aka Captain America)
Sunday Inspiration: Humility
Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.
—C. S. Lewis
Darrell J. Pursiful 