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Sunday Inspiration: Optimism
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
—Winston Churchill
Sunday Inspiration: The Price of Anything
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
—Henry David Thoreau
Sunday Inspiration: The Light that Is You
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world.
All things break. And all things can be mended.
Not with time, as they say, but with intention.
So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally.
The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.
—L. R. Knost
Sunday Inspiration: Hope
Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
—Saint Augustine
Sunday Inspiration: A Meaningful Life
To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you, that’s what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself but for one’s community.
—Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sunday Inspiration: Thankful
If you cannot be grateful for what you have received, then be thankful for what you have been spared.
—Yiddish proverb
Sunday Inspiration: Change
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
—Leo Tolstoy
Sunday Inspiration: Overcoming
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.
—Helen Keller
Sunday Inspiration: Terrified
I’ve been absolutely terrified every minute of my life—and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
—Georgia O’Keeffe
Sunday Inspiration: Humility
Truly lamentable is the person who does not have humility. He who is not able to humble himself will later on be humbled by other people. And he whom other people cannot humble, God will humble.
—Saint Antony of Optina
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