Thursday, September 1, 2005

"Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you."
- Anonymous

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

"Never spend time with people who don't respect you"
- Maori Proverb

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

"I would like to beseech you as well as I can, dear sir, to love the questions themselves.... For now, live the questions."
- Rainer Maria Rilke in Letters to a Young Poet

Monday, August 29, 2005

"It's only when I know a bit about who I am that I can discover who you are."
- Jean Vanier

Saturday, August 27, 2005

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

-Robert Frost

Thursday, August 25, 2005

"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."
-Alan Watts

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

"It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile."
-Garry Marshall

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

"I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones."
- Oscar Wilde

Monday, August 22, 2005

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Sunday, August 21, 2005

You can do no great things; only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Saturday, August 20, 2005

"The best things in life aren't things."
- Art Buchwald

Friday, August 19, 2005

Happy Birthday, Will!!!!!!
Here's to a great year ahead!

Thursday, August 18, 2005

"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."
- Kahlil Gibran

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

"Ministry is about serving others and God through the sharing of our time and talents/gifts."

-Rushan Sinnaduray (as a result of a conversation with Will Howard)

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

No one can know what goes on in the soul of an afflicted person. No one can know what secret inner ripening can come from suffering and sorrow. All we know is that every individual’s life is priceless - that each is dear to God.
- Christoph Probst

Monday, August 15, 2005

"Everything can be taken from a man but ...the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
- Victor Frankl

Sunday, August 14, 2005

"What is to give light must endure burning."
- Victor Frankl

Saturday, August 13, 2005

"Consider the following. We humans are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others' actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others."
- Dalai Lama

Friday, August 12, 2005

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Gandhi

Thursday, August 11, 2005

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
- Isabel Allende

Tuesday, August 9, 2005

What you are, the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
- J. Krishnamurti

Monday, August 8, 2005

Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.
- Marianne Williamson

Saturday, August 6, 2005

"Christian leaders cannot simply be persons who have well-informed opinions about the burning issues of our time. Their leadership must be rooted in the permanent, intimate relationship with the incarnate Word, Jesus, and they need to find there the source for their words, advice, and guidance....Dealing with burning issues easily leads to divisiveness because, before we know it, our sense of self is caught up in our opinion about a given subject. But when we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible but not relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle, and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative."

- Henri Nouwen

Wednesday, August 3, 2005

"You yourself are the child you must learn to know, rear, and above all enlighten. To demand that others should provide you with answers is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. Seek in your child the undiscovered part of yourself."
- Janusz Korczak

Monday, August 1, 2005

"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level."

-Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)