Dr. Steve Stephens - How to Build a Great Life

An excerpt from
Lists to Live By: The First Collection: For Everything that Really Matters

WHAT IS SUCCESS?

To laugh often and love much;

To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;

To earn the approval of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;

To appreciate beauty;

To find the best in others;

To give of one's self;

To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation;

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived...

This it to have succeeded.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

POET, ESSAVIST, AND PHILOSOPHER

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Added: March 21, 2008

Day 11

I think we’ve all become a little jaded, narrow minded, and shortsighted. I am excellent at ignoring wonder, explaining away astonishment, and diminishing the value of anything real. If it doesn’t make sense, it just doesn’t seem real. Yet what if what is most real makes the least sense? Not because it is senseless or irrational, but because it lies beyond our limited senses and rationality.

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