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Righteousness

When Abraham Lincoln entered politics, he ran for president of the United States. The party convention held in Chicago would select the presidential candidate.

Friends at the Chicago convention sent him a telegram informing him that if he could convince the two groups of delegates attending the convention, Lincoln would definitely be the candidate, and that if the two groups promised to give each of their leaders a cabinet position, they would vote for Lincoln.

Then Lincoln sent a telegram to his friends and replied. His reply was...

"I will not compromise. No one will bind me." //

How to feel better

Eileen Egan, who spent 30 years as a lay volunteer and author of Such A Vision of Street, described the comforting worldview of the saintly nun Mother Teresa as follows:

One day, while talking to Mother Teresa, I was opening up about the many, many problems I was facing. I said this, and then the Mother commented...

“Everything is a problem, so why not use the word ‘gift’?” From that moment on, we changed our wording.

Not long after that, we were supposed to fly from Vancouver to New York City. When we heard that the airline had a problem and we would be stranded for a long time, I was so excited.

I'm so disappointed. Anyway... I have to report this to the Mother Superior. I was about to talk about this problem when I suddenly remembered...

“I have a gift to tell you about. We will be waiting here for four hours. So we will be late arriving at the monastery,” she said. Mother Teresa took out one of her favorite books and sat in the airport reading it.

After that, when we talked about our disappointments or difficulties, they would say, “We have a little gift” (or) “Today we have a very special gift, Mother.”

When we said that, we smiled, not feeling confident. In the past, when we encountered this kind of problem, we would use the big, hard word "problem" with a heavy heart. //

When asked by “CBS This Morning” co-anchor Kathryn Sullivan if there was anyone she admired enough to influence her work, she replied, “I have a lot of respect for them.”

When talking about the person she admired and emulated, it turns out that she wasn't one of the successful women in the world of television news.

“The nuns at Santa Catalina Convent played a key role in shaping me into the successful woman I am today. They understood the importance of independence long before lay women like me understood it.

They succeed because they believe that what they are doing matters.

"The person I respect the most and the strongest role model is Sister Carlo, the principal of our high school. I can still see her standing in front of me." //

What would you do if you had a lot of money?

Throughout the history of the United States Open, “Peace (S)an Prause” was the youngest male champion in the history of the tournament. He was only 19 years and 28 days old when he became the champion. In addition, in 1960, he won a total of 2.9 million US dollars in prize money, becoming a millionaire overnight. However, he...

"I don't want money to get into my head," he said.

As he said, when he won the Grand Slam tournament in December 1960, Sang Prasad donated his $250,000 prize money to the Cerebral Palsy and Stroke Association right at the awards ceremony.

Why did you choose that group to donate to?

There's a story. His father's sister, Marian, died of the disease. When Sang Prasad was just starting to win in junior tennis, his father once said something to him in jest.

"One day you'll become a star in the tennis world and you'll have money to drink and drink. Then we'll donate half of it."

His father's words stuck in Sanpras' head.

“I’ve always wondered what I would do if I won a really big prize. So when I won the big prize, I went up to the microphone. I was so excited that I stammered. It was two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.”

"But I'm happy because this action reminds me of my father and his sister."

"Because it's a good way to express it."//