Searching

For just a moment, stop searching and do something with what you've already found.

-Jonathan Harnisch

I Am A Person - Jonathan Harnisch

 I am a person.

Not a mental health problem.

Let's battle stigma through self expression and humor. Let's just be ourselves!

Sincerely,

Jonathan Harnisch

We Believe What We Tell Ourselves

Tell yourself:

Everything will work out.
Things will get better.
You are important.
You are worthy of great things.
You are lovable.
The time is now.
This too, shall pass.
You can be who you really are.
The best is yet to come.
You are strong.
You can do this.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Harnisch

Integrity

‎"If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing."

-Henry Kravis

Just for Today

 

Just for today I will feel the breeze on my skin, feel the light, and warmth of the sun, and breathe deep, the freshness of the air. Just for today I will think only of these things, and not of other things that cause heaviness in my heart... Just for today.

-Doe Zantamata

Please Be Sure To Visit Happiness In Your Life!

http://www.happinessinyourlife.com/

-Jonathan Harnisch

A Kind Gesture

Sincerely,

Jonathan Harnisch

Meditate On This: Leo Tolstoy

The Forged Coupon

Pure Genius; Leo Tolstoy

Except from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy, short, simple, and yet truly profound, this novella reads as it perhaps was, Tolstoy's last wish for humanity; compassion, kindness, and responsibility toward our fellow man and woman.

'wanted it. But her father stopped that; besides which, she felt disgusted at the crowd of suppli- cants who personally, and by letters, besieged her with demands for money. Then she resolved to apply to an old man, known to be a saint by his life, and to give him her money to dispose of in the way he thought best. Her father got angry with her when he heard about it. During a vio- lent altercation he called her mad, a raving luna- tic, and said he would take measures to prevent her from doing injury to herself.'

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Young Mitya is in desperate need of money to repay a debt, but his father angrily denies him assistance. Dejected, Mitya simply changes a $2.50 note to read $12.50, but this one evil deed sets off a chain of events that affects the lives of dozens of others, when his one falsehood indirectly causes a man to murder a woman at the end of Part I, and then seek redemption through religion in Part II.

Having written the novella in his dying years, after his excommunication, Tolstoy relishes the chance to unveil the "pseudo-piety and hypocrisy of organized religion." Yet, he maintains an unwavering belief in man's capacity to find truth, so the story remains hopeful.

Project Gutenberg's The Forged Coupon and Other Stories, by Leo Tolstoy

-Jonathan Harnisch