Quote of the Day (Matt Emerzian, on Feeling Better About Yourself)

"If you want to feel better about yourself and your life, stop focusing on yourself. It is so simple but so hard for us to understand."— Matt Emerzian, founder and Chief Inspiration Officer of the not-for-profit organization Every Monday Matters, quoted in “Points to Ponder,” Reader’s Digest, January 2014

Quote of the Day (Kate Otto, on ‘Making a Positive Difference in the World’)

“Unlike ever before in history, you and I can make a positive difference in the world, whether that world is overseas or our own backyard. Our compassion and thoughtfulness are no longer geographically constrained to the people immediately in our daily interactions.”— Kate Otto, Everyday Ambassador: Make a Difference by Connecting in a Disconnected World (2015)

Quote of the Day (Bono, on the World Waiting for Grads)

“The world is more malleable than you think, and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.”—U2 frontman Bono, address to 2004 graduates of the University of Pennsylvania, quoted in “Bono to Grads: Wield a ‘Blunt Instrument’—Your Diploma,” The Pennsylvania Gazette, July/August 2004

(Official White House photo of Bono with President Barack Obama taken by Pete Souza, April 30, 2010)

Quote of the Day (C.S. Lewis, on the Perils of a Woman Who “Lives for Others”)

“She’s the sort of woman who lives for others—you can tell the others by their hunted expression.”—C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (1942)

Quote of the Day (Leo Tolstoy, on Love)

“And all men live not by the thought they spend on their own welfare, but because love exists in man.”—Novelist Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), What Men Live By (1881)

Quote of the Day (John Wooden, on a “Perfect Day”)

“You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”—Basketball Hall of Fame coach John Wooden

Quote of the Day (Martin Luther King Jr., on “Life’s Most Persistent and Urgent Question”)

“Every person must decide, at some point, whether they will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., August 11, 1957