Time out! A dose of inspiration

The Internet and airwaves overflow with stress and stupidity. Our times call for truth, togetherness, toughness and wisdom. Instead, we get misinformation. We get anger. We get fear. We get a headache. We get heartache.

Today we get a little respite.

We’re turning off the TV, computer and smartphone. This week we’re plugging into some of the words of wisdom and optimism that have guided men and women through challenging times before. If we listen, they can do so again.

TODAY’S INSPIRATIONAL CHARACTER: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

‘Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.’

‘Lost time is never found again.’

‘Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement and success have no meaning.’

‘Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.’

‘An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.’

‘In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.’

‘Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.’

‘Energy and persistence conquer all things.’

‘Well done is better than well said.’

‘It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.’

‘Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.’