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Sunday Inspiration: A Great Teacher
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist…. It might even be the greatest of the arts, since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
—John Steinbeck
Sunday Inspiration: Only by Love
The world is violent and mercurial – it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love—love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent, being a writer, being a painter, being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.
—Tennessee Williams
Sunday Inspiration: Life Is like a Garden
Life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.
—Leonard Nimoy
Sunday Inspiration: The First Definition of Love
The first definition of love is to be there. This is a practice. How can you love if you are not there? In order to love you have to be there, body and mind united. A true lover knows that the practice of mindfulness is the foundation of true love.
—Thich Nhat Hanh
Sunday Inspiration: Peace
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Sunday Inspiration: Humility
Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate.
—Saint John Climacus
Sunday Inspiration: Solitude
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
—Blaise Pascal
Sunday Inspiration: Because of Who You Are
Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.
—Mother Teresa
Sunday Inspiration: Failure
There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.
—Charles Bukowski
Sunday Inspiration: Change
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
—Viktor Frankl
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