QUOTE

FindCenter AddIcon
Quote Author Image
FindCenter Quotes Image

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Quote Author Image

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) was an American Christian minister and civil rights activist who led one of the greatest nonviolent movements in world history to attain legal equality for African Americans in the United States. Drawing on both his Christian faith and the nonviolent philosophies of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. King is widely regarded as a preeminent spokesperson for nonviolent activism. His “I Have a Dream” speech is among the most recognized and revered orations in the English language.

FindCenter Video Image

FindCenter Quotes ImageWe meet no ordinary people in our lives.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

FindCenter Quotes ImageNo matter how simplified or complicated life gets, it can make us miserable or it can wake us up.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

FindCenter Quotes ImageStay a verb—don’t become a noun.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

FindCenter Quotes ImageLife’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

FindCenter Quotes ImageEmpathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

FindCenter Quotes ImageIf only our passion to understand others were as great as our passion to be understood. Were this so, all our apologies would be truly meaningful and healing.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen forgiveness experts talk in binary language (’You either forgive the wrongdoer or you are a prisoner of your own anger and hate’), they are collapsing the messy complexity of human emotions into a simplistic dichotomous equation.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

FindCenter Quotes ImagePeople’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

FindCenter Quotes ImageExcessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

FindCenter Quotes ImageLearning any new skill involves relatively brief spurts of progress, each of which is followed by a slight decline to a plateau somewhat higher in most cases than that which preceded it . . . the upward spurts vary; the plateaus have their own dips and rises along the way. . . .

FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Building Character