Words To Live By

One of my favorite calendars is one that I bought last winter at a little alternative book store on the campus of the major university here in town. It is black and white, and each month offers a quote of some kind. I wouldn't put it in the same class as one of those inspirational items with vast pictures of landscapes and what not, though. This one is more food for thought.

I was turning the pages to December the other day (a few weeks late, I know), and I came upon the best quote I've yet come across. There were several really great points in a rather long entry for the month, but one particular line struck me quite deeply:

Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

Words to live by. It is my new motto.

(quote attributed to Christian D. Larson).