Bits of Wisdom with Terry Weaver

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“The purpose of life is not to be happy at all. It is to be useful, to be honorable. It is to be compassionate. It is to matter, to have it make some difference that you lived.” Leo Rosten Have you ever wondered why we have a body that’s capable of doing extraordinary things? Have you questioned why we experience a new sense of vigor when we wake? How about our thirst for newness — ever wonder why...

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” Joseph Campbell This one is dedicated to all of us who have struggled to fit in, who’ve tried to be someone we thought would be accepted, to all of us who have struggled with identity. “Why fit in when you were born to stand out!” Dr. Seuss You are unique. Like no one else. You have an innate, singular advantage for being exactly who you were bor...

“Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.” Norman Mailer The most encouraging part of this opening quote is that we get to choose our direction. We can advance or retreat, live a little more or die a bit today, expand our life, or shrink back in fear. It is our choice, and we alone get to make it. I...

If this Bit of Wisdom spoke to you, you might enjoy reading All My Best: Wisdom and Encouragement for a Better Life. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit terryweaver.substack.com/subscribe

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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson The following is an excerpt from my book All My Best: Wisdom and Encouragement for a Better Life . Available on Amazon. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit terryweaver.substack.com/subscribe

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson The following is an excerpt from my book All My Best: Wisdom and Encouragement for a Better Life . Available on Amazon. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit terryweaver.substack.com/subscribe

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson The following is an excerpt from my book All My Best: Wisdom and Encouragement for a Better Life . Available on Amazon. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit terryweaver.substack.com/subscribe

“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.” Albert Schweitzer The following is an excerpt from my book All My Best: Wisdom and Encouragement for a Better Life . Available on Amazon. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit terryweaver.substack.com/subscribe

“Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” Albert Einstein If this Bit of Wisdom spoke to you, you might enjoy reading All My Best: Wisdom and Encouragement for a Better Life. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit terryweaver.substack.com/subscribe

“The truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.” Socrates If this Bit of Wisdom spoke to you, you might enjoy reading All My Best: Wisdom and Encouragement for a Better Life. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonu...

“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.” Kurt Vonnegut If this Bit of Wisdom spoke to you, you might enjoy reading All My Best: Wisdom and Encouragement for a Better Life. This is a p...

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” Franz Kafka If this Bit of Wisdom spoke to you, you might enjoy reading All My Best: Wisdom and Encouragement for a Better Life. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bo...

“Either you think—or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.” F. Scott Fitzgerald If this Bit of Wisdom spoke to you, you might enjoy reading All My Best: Wisdom and Encouragement for a Better Life. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes...

If this Bit of Wisdom spoke to you, you might enjoy reading All My Best: Wisdom and Encouragement for a Better Life. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit terryweaver.substack.com/subscribe

If this Bit of Wisdom spoke to you, you might enjoy reading All My Best: Wisdom and Encouragement for a Better Life. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit terryweaver.substack.com/subscribe

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“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” Herman Melville There is a kind of passive failure no one really talks about. We hide it in a back room, where it collects dust, away from the world, so we can ignore it. This failure exists in many of us; it’s there because of fear. This passive failure I’m referring to comes from never trying. We have dreams, goals, and aspirati...

“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” Earl Nightingale A great friend of mine often greets me with, “Happy Monday. It’s the best day of the week.” When we talk on Thursdays, his greeting is modified, “Happy Thursday. It’s the fourth best day of the week.” Over a decade ago, when we were just beginning our friendship, I was unsure how to respond to his unorthodox thinkin...

“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out — you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.” Henry James What is true happiness? How many people have found it? What percentage of our population lives in true happiness? I have only glimpsed it and grabbed ahold of it for moments, maybe a few days at a time, but...

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s. Their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” Oscar Wilde When struck with this statement, the question immediately came to mind, is this true of my life? To find out I inverted the statement: Most people are themselves. Their thoughts are uniquely their own. Their lives are original, their passions a reality. When I tested my...

“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.” Anonymous What’s caging you? What have you been born into that’s limiting you? When I first discovered this quote, it hit me hard because I was born into an ideology that still affects me today. The process of being born and raised in an ideology is often referred to as domestication. It’s important to understand that most of us are born and raise...