Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do
doesn't mean it's useless."

-- Thomas A. Edison



How does a plan or thing become useless?

If you've never run around

"If you've never run around, you've never been anywhere!"

-- Unknown



Aside from running around, what other activities will give opportunity to go anywhere?

It takes courage to grow up

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

-- e.e. cummings



What if we don't have courage, can we not become what we really are?

Tell everyone what you want to do

"Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to
help you do it."

-- W. Clement Stone




How important to tell everyone what we want?

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."


-- Charles R. Swindoll



Is it true that opportunities are like precious gems, they are slowly dig?

When you hold resentment toward another

"When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to
that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger
than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link
and get free."

-- Catherine Ponder

Is there any profit in holding a resentment towards another?

Sometimes I lie awake at night

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone
wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more
than one night.'"

-- Charles M. Schulz

How does wrong act affect us, and to the extent we may even have an sleepless nights?

Have more than thou showest

"Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest."

-- William Shakespeare


Why is it important to show more?