Michael Josephson
Michael Josephson
Michael Josephsonis a former law professor and attorney who founded the nonprofit Joseph and Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics located in Los Angeles, California, out of which he operates as a speaker and lecturer on the subject of ethics. The institute is named after his parents...
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gratitude grateful blessing
Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the many things we have to be thankful for, not so we feel guilty about what we have that others don't, but to be genuinely grateful for our blessings.
gratitude should sincerely
Gratitude should be felt and experienced sincerely, expressed generously and received graciously.
eye practice alcohol
Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull's-eye.
strong character honor
Character - We describe the character of a person in reference to moral judgments about the worthiness of a person. Thus, to have a strong, great or honorable character is to be a person of merit, worthy of admiration and honor.
character decision temptation
Character is both formed and revealed by how one deals with everyday situations as well as extraordinary pressures and temptations. Like a well-made tower, character is built stone by stone, decision by decision.
ethics unfair difficult
It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair
leadership authority
What you allow you encourage.
powerful mean yes-and-no
Yes and no are very powerful words. Mean them when you say them. Respect them when you hear them.
kindness water loving-kindness
You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be sweeter.
matter taught
What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.
courage might wonderful
In life, we all get scored on every day. The wonderful thing is, if we do our best with courage and tenacity, we might be outscored but we can never be beaten.
gratitude grateful mean
Gratitude is a feeling not statement. It is so easy to say we are grateful that I often don't stop to really, really take the time to experience gratitude. Saying the words doesn't mean a thing without the feeling and it takes a moment of genuine reflection to summon that feeling. This Thanksgiving don't shortchange yourself with hollow words.
christmas christian spiritual
Christmas has a certain universal appeal that gives it meaning well beyond a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but Christians have a special duty to experience its sacred and profound spiritual significance and non-Christians have a duty to treat the day with special respect.
important-values relics ifs
If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become.