Newborn Love
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008There’s nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit-and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.
-Virginia Kelley
There’s nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit-and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.
-Virginia Kelley
There are spaces between our fingers so that another person’s fingers can fill them in.
-Bits and Pieces
No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
-Lee Iacocca
William McKinley, the 25th U.S. President, once had to choose between two equally qualified men for a key job. He puzzled over the choice until he remembered a long-ago incident.
On a rainy night, McKinley had boarded a crowded streetcar. One of the men he was now considering had also been aboard, though he didn’t see […]
Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow.
-Slovakian Proverb
Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
-Henry James
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
-Arthur Rubinstein
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
-Plato
When your heart speaks, take good notes. - Judith Campbell
(Taken from Three Cups of Tea
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
-Thoreau
Mindfulness teaches us to notice our thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations without immediately categorizing them as good or bad. We learn to be more compassionate toward ourselves, responding to our thoughts and feelings as a friend might, rather than as a slave to a master. Rather than be overwhelmed or ruled by our feelings, we […]
Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.
-Antonio Machado
Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-Martin Luther King
Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.
-Gandhi
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. - unknown
Originally from One Generation After
I no longer ask you either happiness or paradise: all I ask of You is to listen and let me be aware of Your listening.
I no longer ask You to resolve my questions, only to receive them and make them part of You.
I no longer ask You for either rest or […]
A post card received this week. Comforting.
Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?
-Unknown
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