Sublime

A single misplaced response can shrivel a child’s spirit, whereas the right comment can encourage them to soar. In each moment, we can choose to make or break, foster or cause to freeze up.

Most of us work more willingly for a kind, accepting mentor than a stern taskmaster.

might overlook, advocate for you with conviction, mentor with wisdom, and stand firm in their belief in you.

for wisdom and compassion.

mind. I proposed that by the time we were through, he would never see himself or the world in the same way as he had before. “You’re on,” he said. He seemed to have a renewed fire in his eyes. I found that I genuinely liked this man who now exuded curiosity, intelligence, and no small measure of determination.

Leadership on the Line by Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky,

an important person in this world. She’d always felt like she was just like everyone else — simply another face in the crowd — and assumed that one day she’d die and “go out quietly, unnoticed.” After doing Homework for Life for six months, her life had changed. She said that searching for stories and recording them every day had made her feel like

You are not the same person as the one who was once hemmed in by circumstances and limited by Common-Hour Thinking. You reached the edge of who you knew yourself to be and stepped beyond to find that you contained far more than you knew.