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“Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.”
― Thornton Wilder, The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“In the cosmic dance of earthlings and humanoids, we will discover the true value of being human . . .”
― Jo-Ann Triner, EdD

“If we are to get on with the great work of the universe, we must get over the soul-avoidance syndrome.”
― Jo-Ann Triner, EdD

“Pride delights in its clever schemes and reduces character to craft.”
― Jo-Ann Triner, EdD

“At the extremes, labor is either sheer misery and madness or an act of love in which we flourish from within.”
― Jo-Ann Triner, EdD

“Our storied history is a powerful tool for making sense of the past and plotting our way forward with far less struggle. Historians and journalists have left us the legacy of happenings in terms of the external drama, but hardly enough is revealed about the high drama of the heart that constitutes our inside story.”
― Jo-Ann Triner, EdD

“So many dormant dreams, so little time! Such is our oft-spoken sigh at the breaking of each new day. As the sun sweeps across the sky, spanning twenty-four regions of the globe, morning dawns in perfect progression. It is then that we consciously re-inhabit ourselves, each of us drawing a fresh breath and bringing our dreams into the light of day.”
― Jo-Ann Triner, EdD

“In the mystique of the fresh morning air, so many of us vow to seize the day and make it our own. For that moment, possibility shimmers through the windows of our soul, inviting us to more. Even as the first egg fries, we sense strongly that with dawn comes an invitation to arise from slumber to the table of life. In the newness of the day, powerful life forces awaken within us.”
― Jo-Ann Triner, EdD

“Over time, the managed-labor paradigm has proven increasingly weak in its power to propel the workforce . . . More managers are needed every day to motivate the unmotivated.”
― Jo-Ann Triner, EdD

“Full engagement requires something beyond the work of the body and the work of the mind. It requires the work of the heart and soul in which we bring the whole of ourselves to the task.”
― Jo-Ann Triner, EdD

“Our highest calling as human beings and stewards of society is to touch the hearts and souls of those we serve. Anything less can be done by AI technologies that will increasingly displace us were it not for the universal human attribute of our love alliance with each other--a love that has long since fallen below the radar of our awareness.”
― Jo-Ann Triner, EdD