monday.

It's not always what you face in life that makes up your story, but rather how you handle the situation and what kind of person you choose to be in the face of it. The tools you utilize and sharpen in dealing with problems of your own and with others are so key in deciding how a seemingly hopeless situation resolves, as well as, on a larger scale, the composition of your life. You may not consciously choose what side of the bed you wake up on, but you can decide whether to jump up and greet the sun or rain, make your bed, and put the shoe on the right foot that you'll get off on (if you choose to).

"Information and 'stress' are not going to diminish. So the question becomes, Do we let stress and information shape our response to the world, or do we use free will and critical thinking to make good decisions in response to inevitable stress and the influx of new information?...
Anger, frustration, stress, and anxiety are themselves a form of information. One of the main problems in contemporary society is that many people mistake emotion for the thought. Difficulties, sensation, emotion, information--they're the beginning of the heroic journey of the life of the mind, not its end.
Its a journey that can and should lead to the top of a mountain of our choosing."
-Michael R LeGault, Th!nk