Wednesday, August 30, 2006

"There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication ... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing."
- John Dewey

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in."
- Rachel Carson

Monday, August 28, 2006

"We are all kindred spirits in terms of our humanity -- in terms of our relationship to the horizontal human experience. We are all kindred spirits with more connection than differences without even taking the vertical -- the Spiritual relationship -- into consideration."
- Robert Burney

Sunday, August 27, 2006

"The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Saturday, August 26, 2006

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be taken lightly.
-M.F.K. Fisher

Thursday, August 24, 2006

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother.
- Tenessee Williams

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Prayer is translation. A man translated himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
- Leonard Cohen

Monday, August 21, 2006

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
- Danny Kaye

Wednesday, August 9, 2006

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a family; whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
- Jane Howard

Tuesday, August 8, 2006

I not only have secrets, I am my secrets. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it is to be human.
- Frederick Buechner

Monday, August 7, 2006

Neither fame nor money add a storyline to one's life. This is, since biblical times, the irony of human pursuit...
- Douglas Coupland

Sunday, August 6, 2006

Can you imagine how it feels to believe in Christ and be so uncomfortable with Christianity? The church is an empty, hollow building.
- Bono

Friday, August 4, 2006

I am a part of all that I have met.
- Alfred Tennyson

Thursday, August 3, 2006

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.
- St Augustine

Wednesday, August 2, 2006

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
- e.e. cummings

Tuesday, August 1, 2006

No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away.
- David Matthew