WPSU’s This I Believe / Personal Philosophies and Core Values
Tell us the personal philosophy and core values that guide your daily life and hear stories from others.
This I Believe is based on the 1950s radio program of the same name and the media project (launched in 2005) from This I Believe, Inc. and Atlantic Public Media. WPSU invites you, as a central Pennsylvania resident, whatever your background, to speak out.

09-02-2010
I believe in learning from the past. We wouldn’t be who we are now without it. Each moment in time affects us in some way.

08-26-2010
My husband got a call the other night as we finished a late dinner. One of his friends had two extra tickets to the baseball game and wanted to know if he'd like them. Of course he did.

08-19-2010
In the halls of my elementary school in Massachusetts, there was a poster that said, “Life is a journey, not a race.” From kindergarten through fifth grade, I walked by that poster every day. I read it a thousand times, but I never really understood what it meant.

08-12-2010
I sometimes forget I have an older sister. She passed away before I was born, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have a sister. I didn’t know about her until I was 12 years old. But now I think of her often.

08-05-2010
I believe in poetry. In the book Franny and Zooey, one of J.D. Salinger’s characters says, to be a poet you have to leave something beautiful behind. That’s my goal in life.

07-29-2010
I believe in change. If you never change anything in your life, things get boring. Change gives you character and keeps you interesting.

07-22-2010
I believe in the life-changing potential of good guidance. Every semester I tell my Sociology students: when I rolled the cosmic dice, I found myself a white male born into a middle-class family who raised me in a genuinely Minnesota-nice suburb. All I had to do to become the professor they see in front of them…

07-15-2010
I believe in the clock. I believe in the power of the clock. Everything can change in a minute.
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WPSU invites you, as a central Pennsylvania resident, whatever your background, to speak out. Tell us the personal philosophy and core values that guide your daily life.

