Real Love

“Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.” Road Less Traveled – pg. 89 M. Scott Peck, M.D.

Bravery

“The brave man is not he who feels no fear, for that were stupid and irrational; but he whose noble soul its fears subdues, and bravery dares the danger nature shrinks from.” Joanna Baille

Small Things Make A Difference

“We must not, in trying to find a way to make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.” Marian Wright Edelman, Families in Peril

Wisdom from the Tao

“The heavens endure; the earth is very old. Why? Because they do not exist for themselves, they therefor have long life. The truly wise are content to be last; they are therefor first. They are indifferent to themselves; they are therefore self-confident. Perhaps it is because they do not exist for themselves that they find…

Character

“I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house tops.” Oscar Wilde, De profundis

World Changers

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead

Faith

“If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or could it be the same thing under another mask?” Grahm Greene, 1904-1991 English novelist

How We Spend Our Time

“At the end of your life, you will never regret not having past one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child or parent.” Barbara Bush, b. 1925 previous First Lady USA

Love

“I define love thus: the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.” M. Scott Peck, b. 1936 American psychiatrist and writer.

Attitude

“You have to accept whatever comes along and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.” Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962 First Lady of the USA, and UN Delegate

Truth

“Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise from outward things, what’er you may believe. There is an innermost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness” Robert Browning, 1812-1889 English Poet

Just Knock

“God has given many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with the hands of faith” Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931 Lebanese poet, artist and mystic