Read more from Amy Chua's "A World on the Edge"
http://wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/winter-2014-four-decades-of-classic-essays/a-world-on-the-edge/
Monday, June 30, 2014
Market capitalism and Democracy
"Market capitalism is the most efficient economic system the world has ever known. Democracy is the fairest political system the world has ever known, and the one most respectful of individual liberty. Together, markets and democracy will gradually transform the world into a community of prosperous, war-shunning nations, and individuals into liberal, civic-minded citizens and consumers. Ethnic hatred, religious zealotry, and other “backward” aspects of underdevelopment will be swept away."
Read more from Amy Chua's "A World on the Edge"
http://wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/winter-2014-four-decades-of-classic-essays/a-world-on-the-edge/
Read more from Amy Chua's "A World on the Edge"
http://wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/winter-2014-four-decades-of-classic-essays/a-world-on-the-edge/
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Are you not worth much more than they
This past year has been the biggest valley and hardest year of my life. Transitioning from undergrad into the real world and/or postgraduate education is both scary and exciting. There is beauty in the unknown and that is something that I have come to learn this year. Worrying is unnecessary and pointless.
25"For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26"Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? 27"And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?…
Matthew 6: 25-27
Those are the words I repeat to myself constantly. This past year I hit the point at which I had no choice but not to worry for the sake of my own sanity. When your only choice is to have patience, trust and faith, I think you really learn their meaning. I thank God for the lessons this year has taught me. It's been rough but I needed it. I've grown so much and can definitely see the sunshine peaking from behind the hill, the faint rainbow in the rain, the end of the storm.
(It's funny, because my whole life has been testament to these verses. But that's another story.)
25"For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26"Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? 27"And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?…
Matthew 6: 25-27
Those are the words I repeat to myself constantly. This past year I hit the point at which I had no choice but not to worry for the sake of my own sanity. When your only choice is to have patience, trust and faith, I think you really learn their meaning. I thank God for the lessons this year has taught me. It's been rough but I needed it. I've grown so much and can definitely see the sunshine peaking from behind the hill, the faint rainbow in the rain, the end of the storm.
(It's funny, because my whole life has been testament to these verses. But that's another story.)
Montenegro
Proud To Be
This.
"Native Americans call themselves many things. The one thing they don't... ______."
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)