Friday; July 24
I don’t know too much about Benjamin Disraeli other than he was a British political figure who lived from 1804 to 1881. The other day I came across some of his quotes and, while I am still not sure how many I appreciate, there are a couple that got my attention. One of them was “Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”. In essence, we will be limited by our limited thinking. The other one noted, “There is no education like adversity.”. Interestingly, when you put these two thoughts together, you have a pretty good life lesson. To elevate our lives, we are going to have to think higher and try harder; however, the harder we try the more difficult we are going to find things; but that’s okay because tougher times can make stronger people. (I will give you a second if you need to go back and reread that.) In essence, to be the best we can be requires that we venture out to where we hav...