When you feel unloved or lonely, your first reaction might be to seek that love from other people. You might look for a new love interest or try to rekindle the love you once shared with your current partner. This applies also to other relationships, including friendships, business connections, and work partnerships. But instead of love, you might be seeking more appreciation, caring, respect, or value. It may be hard to believe at first glance,

We have all told little white lies from time to time. Little white lies, as the name implies, tend to be small and relatively harmless. In fact, we often tell little white lies to avoid hurting someone’s feelings. But what about the lies that are not so harmless? This quote addresses the dangers of making up false statements. In this post, we will be defining a specific type of lie known as slander and listing

Most of us would consider our daily lives to be quite noisy, both outwardly and inwardly. Whether it’s actual sounds in our environment from other people, traffic, televisions, computers, and telephones, or even inner sources of noise, like the mental static caused by confused thoughts, fears and worries, self-doubt and insecurity. If you have ever experienced this type of inner static, you probably know how easily it can take over your mind and body. It

Often times banquets are part of a celebration for an event that gives recognition to someone for a job well done. It is a celebratory time and involves many different foods to accommodate all the guests’ different palates. This event comes at the end of long, hard work where you have sweated and sacrificed and worked harder than before to accomplish something. But a banquet of consequences is something altogether different. Instead of being recognized

In Game of Thrones, Ned Stark explains to his son, Bran, why he had to be the one to execute a man who broke his oath as a watchman of The Wall. The explains that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. In the book A Game of Thrones, Ned explains his reasoning further. He says, “If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his

As much as we all like to feel comfortable and secure, it’s important to recognize that our biggest trials and challenges in life are the very building blocks that strengthen us and make us more confident, compassionate, and loving people. You can probably recall at least a few big challenges that you have faced throughout your lifetime. And while you were working through those struggles, you probably experienced moments of doubt, fear, and despair. Maybe

In Fight Club, Ed Norton plays the unnamed insomniac white-collar narrator who is fed up with his comfortable Ikea-i-fied life. Feeling emasculated by modern norms, he and devil-may-care soapmaker Tyler Durden form an underground fight club for men. This club is primal; the men fight each other to reclaim the masculinity they feel like they’ve been stripped of in society.  Tyler speaks these words when he pours a chemical burn onto the narrator’s hands. The

In 1989, the movie Dead Poet’s Society was released. Robin Williams, who plays inspirational boarding schoolteacher John Keating, bucks the traditional rules of his school to instill the love of learning, the virtue of thinking differently, and the imperative of seizing the day into his students. He also imparts the wisdom that no matter what other people say, words and ideas can change the world.  These words may have been spoken in fiction, but they