From the Quote of the Week Files, August 27, 2012

"What My Son's Disabilities Taught Me About 'Having It All" is the article that inspired this week's quote.  Because of her child's problems, the author will never have a tidy, peaceful life. But none of this keeps her from being happy -- as long as she asks herself the right questions. (From the Business of Life Blog)
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When I look at friends and acquaintances, many with perfectly beautiful children and wonderful lives, and see how desperately unhappy or stressed they are about balancing work and family, I think to myself that the solution to many problems is deceptively obvious. We are chasing the wrong things, asking ourselves the wrong questions. It is not, "Can we have it all?" -- with "all" being some kind of undefined marker that shall forever be moved upwards out of reach just a little bit with each new blessing. We should ask instead, "Do we have enough?"

Marie Myung-Ok Lee

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/07/what-my-sons-disabilities-taught-me-about-having-it-all/260479/
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"Don't criticize, condemn, or complain."

Dale Carnegie (His first of nine Human Relation Principles)

Here are are the other eight...

2. Give honest and sincere appreciation
3. Arouse in the other person an eager want.
4. Become genuinely interested in other people.
5. Smile.
6. Remember that a man's name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
7. Be a good listener.  Encourage others to talk about themselves.
8. Talk in terms of the other man's interests.
9. Make the other person feel important — and do it sincerely.
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!