Choose, cause, have, and celebrate change

"Whatever you choose to have for yourself, give freely to others.  If you choose to be more happy, cause more happiness for others.  If you choose to be prosperous, cause prosperity for others.  If you choose more love in your life, cause others to have more love in theirs. ... Give what you most want to have so that you can see it." -- Neale Donald Walsch

First I found the above quote and wrote it down.  It was consistent with the natural optimist in me - the believer in positive self-responsibility.  Then Anne and I stretched out on the couch on a Saturday afternoon and watched the movie, "Pay It Forward," and I heard the line below and wrote it down.  It made me cry and hurt.  It captured my painful experience of reaching out to several families over the last few weeks and finding what seemed like "people giving up": Trevor McKinney: "I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are -- even if they're bad -- to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody loses."

The two of these quotes together represent the full yang and the yin on the subject for me - the polar opposites of the same whole - the spectrum of my emotions in the pursuit of helping people.  They struck me as natural bookends - opposite of each other in one way, exactly the same in another, and both profoundly real and true - all that is.