Sunday

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

~Aldous Huxley

"A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out."

~Hafiz

"We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves."

~Pema Chodron

"Each of us, as we journey through life, has the opportunity to find and to give his or her unique gift. Whether this gift is quiet or small in the eyes of the world does not matter at all--not at all; it is through the finding and the giving that we may come to know the joy that lies at the center of both the dark times and the light."

—Helen M. Luke

"God is not a person; God is a sacred personification of one or more deeply significant dimensions of reality. If we miss this we miss everything!" 

~ Michael Dowd, ProgressiveChristianity.org

"We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up."

~Dr. Martin Luther King 

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Rumi

"As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all."

~Buddha

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

~Aldous Huxley

"Do all the good you can,

By all the means you can,

In all the ways you can,

In all the places you can,

At all the times you can,

To all the people you can,

As long as ever you can."

~John Wesley

"In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught."

– Baba Dioum, Senegalese Conservationist