When the going gets tough, it is easy to turn down the self-pity highway and punch the gas! Surely when we overly focus on our unmet desires, compare ourselves or circumstances unfavorably to others, ...

A Kenyan friend once said an experience he once had was “awful.” This was puzzling since the event was a joyous one. I asked what had happened to make it awful. It took some doing to understand that ...

Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble. Pity is the capacity to enter into the pain of another in order to do something about it; ...