Friday, September 30, 2005

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

Thursday, September 29, 2005

"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."
- Thomas Merton

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love."
- Washington Irving

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

"It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things."
- Donald Miller

Monday, September 26, 2005

"Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth."
- Tom Barrett

Sunday, September 25, 2005

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
- Maya Angelou, "Gather Together in My Name"

Saturday, September 24, 2005

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
- Mahatma Gandhi

Friday, September 23, 2005

"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."
- Thomas Szasz

Thursday, September 22, 2005

"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 light from within."
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will."
- Jawaharlal Nehru

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

"But in another way, community is a terrible place. It is the place where our limitations and our egoism are revealed to us. When we begin to live full-time with others, we discover our poverty and our weakness, our inability to get on with people, our mental and emotional blocks . . . our seemingly insatiable desires, our frustrations and jealousies, our hatred and our wish to destroy."
- Jean Vanier

Monday, September 19, 2005

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." (Christopher Robin to Pooh)
- A.A. Milne

Sunday, September 18. 2005

"The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you."
- Frederick Buechner

Saturday, September 17, 2005

"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear"

- Thomas Jefferson

Friday, September 16, 2005

"The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?""
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thursday, September 15, 2005

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"
- Charles M. Schulz

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

"My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already."
- Dave Barry

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

"A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends."
-Anonymous

Monday, September 12, 2005

"Music is the silence between the notes."
- Claude Debussy

Sunday, September 11, 2005

"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."
- Maya Angelou

Saturday, September 10, 2005

God has no religion.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Friday, September 9, 2005

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."
- Gloria Naylor

Thursday, September 8, 2005

"The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
- Victor Hugo

Wednesday, September 7, 2005

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.
- Maya Angelou

Tuesday, September 6, 2005

"Life is short, don't waste time worrying about what people think of you Hold on to the ones that care, in the end they will be the only ones there."
--Anonymous

Monday, September 5 , 2005

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
- Maya Angelou

Sunday, September 4, 2005

"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."
- Dag Hammarskjold

Saturday, September 3, 2005

"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Friday, September 2, 2005

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
Dr. Seuss