Believe them.
We love to see the best in people. But if someone’s actions are telling you something different, do you have time to waste hoping they will change?
What’s the cost of this to you? Emotionally? Financially?
Or is a better strategy to take people at face value, and if you don’t like what you’re seeing, to move on?
In arguments, we often want to be right. But being right is not the same as being wise.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.