...when you get a good night's sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day. - Stephen Covey

It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more than what happens to us in the first place.

It becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms. In the words of Thoreau, “For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.” We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior and get to work on the root, the paradigms from which our attitudes and behaviors flow.

It is character that communicates most eloquently.