I found this on another's blog...spent an hour or so reading it...amazing.
“… he felt like he was playing a game different than other people. He, like others, liked to win, but unlike others he wanted to do it right - the right morals, means and ends. He was playing by different rules and, while he felt like a better person for that, he also found that he often lost because of it. Like Chris, I want to do the right things for the right reasons. I too feel like it means I play a different game. I'd like to win, but mostly I want to look at myself in the mirror, look deeply into my own eyes and know the person there is someone I respect. I work everyday to make sure I can still do that. It's something I do every single morning.”
“Confucius said "Have no friends not equal to yourself." Again, a harsh way of thinking perhaps, but quite sensible to those who've found themselves the lesser of two, or even the daunting task of being the greater of two. Being carried is humiliating and carrying only breeds resentment.”
“The girl once known for making colleagues laugh at the drop of a hat, whipping people into shape and routinely thinking outside the proverbial box (rumor was that she actually couldn't think IN it) was no longer that girl. The light in her eyes diminished a bit, as did her humor and her spirit. Compromise after compromise - over values, integrity, professionalism, quality - meant she felt less and less whole. Less and less content. Less and less quirky. Less and less respectable. Less and less like herself.”
“We all do it. We set up rules in our lives. Things we see as good signs or bad signs. Things that make someone right or wrong. Deal-sealers and deal-breakers. One thing I've learned to be weary of is people who use the following phrase: I knew you'd understand. This is a phrase often used by Person A on Person B (someone who cares about Person A) signifying that Person A was given a choice between Person B and someone (or thing) less loving/understanding and chose the lesser of the two. It's a phrase that most often means: I shat upon you because I knew you'd take it.”
“I gradually came to notice that those who make the most significant, lasting contributions in any arena are themselves equally shaped and changed by the act of giving – they were the people who entered thinking they had at least as much to gain from an experience as they had to give to it.”
“I am compelled by the convergence of, and frequent disharmony between, theory and implementation..”