You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.
Og MandinoRead
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of treating others with kindness and compassion, as if each moment could be their last.
Og Mandino's quote invites us to adopt a mindset of urgency and compassion in our interactions with others. By treating everyone as though they might not be around tomorrow, we are encouraged to display our utmost care and kindness without expecting anything in return. This perspective not only enriches the lives of those we encounter but also profoundly transforms our own life experience, fostering deeper connections and a more fulfilling existence.
In practice
In a speech on kindness during a community event.
You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.
Why do we continue to breed little minds who can find no recompense for their own failures other than to belittle and mock the talents, even the dress, of others? When will everyone realize that we are all equal in the eyes of God?
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.
Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.
Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
Life should be lived to the point of tears
I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.
This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.
I do think my childhood is one of the fundamental reasons that I'm able to do my job. We were raised in this totally nonjudgmental family. We never knew who was going to walk in the front door. And as a journalist and a photographer, you walk into so many different scenes that you have to be open to everything.
Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.
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