Tribute to Stephen Covey--To touch the soul

"To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground."

 Stephen R. Covey

10/24/1932 - 7/16/2012

   ‎"You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one"

"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."

 Stephen R. Covey

 

"Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally you are here meaningfully.

There is a purpose behind you."

"Start with the end in mind. "

Stephen R. Covey

  

"Like the elephant, we are unconscious of our own strength. When it comes to understanding the power we have to make a difference in our own lives, we might as well be asleep. If you want to make your dreams come true, wake up. Wake up to your own strength. Wake up to the role you play in your own destiny. Wake up to the power you have to choose what you think, do, and say."

"Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships."  Stephen R. Covey

       

"God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and

coal into diamond using Time and Pressure. He's working on you too."

 
"A young piano student once became very discouraged by her mistakes. Each time she learned a piece, her teacher assigned a new and more difficult piece, and the student would begin playing wrong notes all over again. She concluded that she wasn't learning anything, because she would always make mistakes in her new pieces. Then her teacher explained that nobody ever learned to play the piano without making many, many mistakes. The successful students are those who learn from their mistakes.

  

We learn many other life skills the same way through the practice of trial and error. We can learn to love, for example, by responding to the sour sounds of wrong notes that jangle in our emotional ears when we thoughtlessly hurt someone close to us.

      

Life is a school, a place for us to learn and grow. We, like Adam and Eve, experience "growing pains" through the sorrow and contamination of a lone and dreary world. These experiences may include sin, but they also include mistakes, disappointments, and the undeserved pain of adversity. The blessed news of the gospel is that the atonement of Jesus Christ can purify all the uncleanness and sweeten all the bitterness we taste."

Bruce C. Hafen

   

"Be calm. Be patient. Be happy with the season you are now in

...Life ought to be enjoyed at every stage of our experience"

Jeffrey R.Holland

 

  The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered:

"Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies,

having never really lived."

What a blessing for the world to have had in it a man who lived the principles of joy, peace and prosperity, and who was willing to teach those principles to the rest of us, principles which will persist through the eternities: Thank you Dr. Covey.
~Diane Niedrich Myers