"A great man is a sentence!" said Clare Booth Luce. I heard this quote in a workshop the other day and it really got me to thinking. Is it just GREAT men (women) that are sentences? Isn't everyone powerful remembered for something? I would say Oprah Winfrey's sentence is something along the lines of, "She taught millions of people that they can be whatever they put their mind to." While Adolph Hitler's sentence might be, "He spread hate and destruction like a disease." Both sentences, for sure. Not both "great."
I want to be a great person remembered one day as a GREAT sentence. If I could choose my own, it would be something like, "She gave women the tools to love themselves," or "She inspired others to be their best." Even better, "She lit a fire that made other women believe in their own true potential, which trickled down from generation to generation and changed the world forever."
Every day we wake up and have a choice of what sentence we want to create. What life do you want to live? What influence do you want to have? I believe every (wo)man is a sentence...no matter how "great" they are. But I don't want to be just any old sentence. I certainly don't want to be a sad or negative sentence.
Today I challenge you to write this quote and post it in a place you can see each day. On the days you're feeling most human and full of mistakes (we all have those days, right?) remind yourself that you are in the process of writing your sentence and CHOOSE to make it a great one! What IS your sentence?
I want to be a great person remembered one day as a GREAT sentence. If I could choose my own, it would be something like, "She gave women the tools to love themselves," or "She inspired others to be their best." Even better, "She lit a fire that made other women believe in their own true potential, which trickled down from generation to generation and changed the world forever."
Every day we wake up and have a choice of what sentence we want to create. What life do you want to live? What influence do you want to have? I believe every (wo)man is a sentence...no matter how "great" they are. But I don't want to be just any old sentence. I certainly don't want to be a sad or negative sentence.
Today I challenge you to write this quote and post it in a place you can see each day. On the days you're feeling most human and full of mistakes (we all have those days, right?) remind yourself that you are in the process of writing your sentence and CHOOSE to make it a great one! What IS your sentence?