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"Don't be afraid to ask
dumb questions - They're easier to handle than
dumb mistakes." - Anonymous
"Our worth is not based
upon the purity of our actions, but upon the
integrity of the compromises we make." - Bill Weber
"When we cast our bread
upon the waters we can presume that someone
downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as
we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift."
- Maya Anjelou
"Don't stay in bed unless
you make money in bed." - George Bums
"There is nothing more
difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct
or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a
new order of things." - Inscription on Machiavelli's tomb
"By claiming what we
already are, we best prepare ourselves for what
we shall be." - Henri J. M. Nouwen
"I used to be Catholic.
Now, I'm an American ... Y'know - you grow!"
- George Carlin, comedian
"Great things happen
whenever we stop seeing ourselves as God's gift to
others and begin seeing others as God's gifts to us!" - J. S. Vuocolo
"If you want me to
believe in your Redeemer, you're going to have to look
a lot more redeemed." - Friedrich Nietzche
"When one door of
happiness closes, another opens- but often we look so
long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened
for us." - Helen Keller
"We have seen the enemy,
and they is us!" - Pogo
"If you don't know where
you're going, any road will get you there."
- Ancient Chinese Proverb
"A journey of a thousand
miles begins with a single step."
- Ancient Chinese Proverb
"The realm of God is
within you." - Jesus of Nazareth
"I am not my brother's
keeper. I am my brother's brother. And my sister's
brother, also!" - William S. Coffin, Jr.
"An eye for an eye only
makes the whole world blind." - Mohandas K. Gandhi
"You cannot manage people
- you can only manage tasks.
People must be led. " -Stephen Covey
"Angels fly because they
take themselves lightly." - G.K.Chesterson
"Life is far too short
not to be lived with intention." - J. S. Vuocolo
"We must be the change we
wish to see in the world." - M. K. Gandhi
"The person who takes a
job in order to live - that is to say, for the
money - has turned [sic] into a slave. Work begins when you don't like
what you're doing ... Follow your bliss." - Joseph Campbell
"To a worm stuck in
horseradish, the whole world looks like horseradish."
- Rabbi Harold Kushner
"Those who fail to learn
from history are doomed to repeat it."
- George Santayana
"Life is a series of
moments - to live each one is to succeed.'
- Coiita Kent
"A teacher of mine used
to say, 'Expecting the world to treat you fairly
because you are a good person is like expecting the bull not to charge
you because you are a vegetarian."' - Harold Kushner
"Living by faith means
living in unsureness." - Verna Dozier
"A dream is a wish your
heart makes when you're fast asleep."
- Cinderella
" Some look at the world
and ask Why?' I dream of a world that isn't yet
and ask, 'Why not? - Robert F. Kennedy
"Peace is not the absence
of conflict - it is the presence of justice."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Doing the same things
exactly the same way each time and expecting
a different result!" - Definition of "Insanity" from AA
"Abba Anthony said, 'The
time will come when all people will be insane.
And when they see someone who is not insane, they will attack that person, saying,
"You are insane, because you are not like us!"
- Wisdom of the Desert Fathers, 3rd - 4th Century Egypt
When they asked Martin Luther,
"Brother Martin, what do you do after
you preach on Sunday?" he replied, "I go home and drink beer and let
the Gospel do its work in the world." - Luther, Table Talk
"You can't always choose
your circumstances. But you can always
choose how you will react to any given circumstance." - Anonymous
"To die in love is to
live with God, and in the hearts of those we
leave behind." - Ancient Chinese Proverb
"He had all the qualities of a
dog, except loyalty." - Mark Twain
"There was a person who made a circle to keep me out, so I made a
circle to include us both" - Tribal Rhymes, Ebony, July 1990
"It's not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
- George Eliot 1819 - 1880 (pseudonym of Marian Evans Cross)
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life
in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing
is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein
"A mistake is simply another way of doing things." - Dr. Warren Bennis
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in
what direction we are moving." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"There is no finish line." - Nike Corporation
"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your
environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in
yourself alone." - Orison Swett Marden
"If you continue to look to the past, the future will pass you by."
- John A. Zenkewich
"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that
I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me
do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way
again." - William Penn
"People are like stained glass windows; they sparkle and shine when
the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed
only if there is a light within." - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in
a person's determination." - Tommy LaSorda
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