The Strength That Does Not Shout They looked at the quiet man and made a mistake. They thought silence meant surrender. They thought patience meant fear. They thought a man who did not raise his voice had no fire inside him. They did not understand. A mountain does not move because the wind c

The People You Keep Beside You A person learns many things over time. Some lessons come from hard work. Some come from failure. Many come from the people they choose to walk beside. Most people spend a great deal of time trying to understand the world. Fewer spend enough time trying to understan

Mirror and the Heart A mirror can be a cruel thing if a person lets it do their thinking for them. It shows the face, but not the character. It shows the years, but not the strength that carried them. In love, many people stand before their partner the same way they stand before glass. They ask, a

Mirror and the Heart A mirror can be a cruel thing if a person lets it do their thinking for them. It shows the face, but not the character. It shows the years, but not the strength that carried them. In love, many people stand before their partner the same way they stand before glass. They ask, a

The First Lie The first lie a man learns is often the one he tells himself. He wakes one morning, maybe at thirty, maybe before, and says it plain in his head: I am getting old. He does not shout it. He does not test it. He lets it sit there like a stone in his boot. Then he walks on it all day.