Because you are a character doesn’t that you have character.
– Mr. Wolf (Harvey Keitel/Pulp Fiction)
Author: gcarlse
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Let The Trumpet Sound …
(excerpt from) Letter from Birmingham Jail
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (August 1963)
Doing what has to be done,
How it has to be done,
Every time.
– Gerard Carlse (adapted from Robert M. Knight‘s, One Man Basketball Clinic, 1981)
If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
– William Wallace (Braveheart/Mel Gibson)
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Essential Learning
Know what you have.
Do what you can.
Find a way.
– Gerard Carlse (Scotty: A Hockey Life Like No Other, by Ken Dryden, p. 121)
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I have a dream …
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Person to person …
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Faith
Footprints in the Sand
One night I dreamed a dream.
As I was walking along the beach with my Lord.
Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,
One belonging to me and one to my Lord.
After the last scene of my life flashed before me,
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed that at many times along the path of my life,
especially at the very lowest and saddest times,
there was only one set of footprints.
This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it.
“Lord, you said once I decided to follow you,
You’d walk with me all the way.
But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I don’t understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me.”
He whispered, “My precious child, I love you and will never leave you
Never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I carried you.”
– Margaret Fishback Powers (1964)