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Mountains are moved with faith, Immaculée, but if faith were easy, all the mountains would be gone.
-Immaculée Ilibagiza quoting Jesus Christ in her dream
Left to Tell : Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

Saturday, I started reading Rwandan holocaust survivor, Immaculée Ilibagiza’s book, Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust. I finished the book less than 24 hours later: something I’ve never done before.

This book had me sobbing frequently: also something I’ve never done over a book. After reading nearly half of the book in one […]

Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
-Albert Schweitzer

This post is part of a series: Motivation to Complete Your Goals.
It is difficult to maintain motivation when there doesn’t appear to be any incentive along the journey.
When we review our goals, we usually focus on things that are incomplete. We look at what is missing and spend little time looking at what has been […]

Life is good, without it we'd all be dead.
-Hannah

We want to change life and are working hard to make it happen. But sometimes, it doesn’t seem to happen fast enough. The changes are not here today. When focusing on self-improvement, personal development and inspiration, it is easy to fall into a pattern of dissatisfaction with our current conditions.
We know that tolerance leads […]

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.
-Thomas Edison

Being a realist means being able to focus energy on making a difference in life. It can bring real change and excitement which is the opposite of what one might think.
It seems exciting to think about lottery tickets or quick and easy wealth schemes, traveling to exotic destinations we cannot afford, luxury cars and homes […]

Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
-Viktor Frankl
Man's Search For Meaning

Frankl’s Experience

Looking up at an early morning autumn moon in De Pere, Wisconsin.
Dr. Viktor E. Frankl spent nearly three years in Nazi concentration camps where his wife and parents were executed. He and his sister were the only survivors in his family. He faced horrors I couldn’t begin to describe or even imagine.

An educated […]

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