Brian Johnson reads Muhammad Ali's poem from The Soul of a Butterfly, listing virtues as recipe ingredients: kindness, humility, laughter, patience, generosity, forgiveness, love, faith, determination, and courage.
Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another heroic one. Over the last several plus ones, we've been getting all fired up with some inspiring poems. Let's look at one more. This one is from Muhammad Ali's fantastic autobiography, the Soul of a Butterfly. It's called A Recipe for a Good Life. Muhammad Ali tells us, and I quote, here's my suggestion. Take a few cups of kindness, one dash of humility, one sprinkle of laughter, one teaspoon of patience, one tablespoon of generosity, one pint of forgiveness, one quart of love and a gallon of faith. Mix in determination and add lots of courage. Stir it up very well, spread it over the span of your lifetime and serve it to each and every person you meet. And that's today's plus. One short and sweet is hard to beat, as my sixth grade English teacher, Mrs. Ruscher, wisely taught us. Here's to cooking up the virtues that will make to day a great day.
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