“Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.” Og Mandino

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

27 February

Life has a way of coming at me at its own pace and doesn’t take kindly to my pushing the water uphill any more than it does to my pushing it downhill.

“One of God’s greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.” – Thomas Monson

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

26 February

The gifts I have in abundance from God I’m meant to acknowledge with thorough, innocent, defenseless gratitude just like a child. I’m meant to round off the gratitude by working toward the increase of all things good, beautiful and true within my orbit. Oh, and I’m also meant to increase the sweep of that orbit.

“Real queens fix each others’ crowns.” - Anonymous

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

February 27

'First convince a man that you are his sincere friend. Therein is the drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause.'

- Abraham Lincoln

'I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.'

- Benjamin Franklin

“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.” – Meryl Streep

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

February 26

‘Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.'

- Abraham Lincoln

'Avoid following the crowd - be an engine, not a caboose.'

- Francis Quinn