Adoption always combines ambiguous loss with unrequested gain. An adopted child faces this paradox—this ambiguous grief—at each developmental stage.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

You are living in a system that is pouring acid on your attention every day.

Each of us has many, many maps in our head, which can be divided into two main categories: maps of the way things are, or realities, and maps of the way things should be, or values.

The Lean Startup method, in contrast, is designed to teach you how to drive a startup. Instead of making complex plans that are based on a lot of assumptions, you can make constant adjustments with a steering wheel called the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop.

The mountain is within you, and the power to move it is too.

1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?

Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.

Every sin against love is proof that the person is carnal... You must have the Holy Spirit in order to love, and then the carnal will be conquered.

Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.