Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday February 26, 2014 From Stuart , Florida Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel Think back to those days when we would creep back to our dens where we were holed up, and there like animals try to satisfy our appetites alone─so horribly alone. Just drinking, drink after drink, and dying slowly of despair. If we had a friend in the world we didn’t know it. We just wanted to drink and die alone.It was people who brought us out of this pit, people of marvelous sympathy and understanding, and now, joining hands with these people, we have learned the joy of living─not alone, but with, and part of a community of people. ~The Eye Opener Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction. ~ Thomas Jefferson "O...
