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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
Sunday Inspiration: Gratitude
Be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
—Carl Sagan
Sunday Inspiration: Irritation
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
—Carl Jung
Sunday Inspiration: The Most Beautiful Thing
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
—Albert Einstein
Sunday Inspiration: Privilege
Sometimes privilege looks like being able to ignore a crisis that others are dying from.
—Blair Imani
Sunday Inspiration: Everyday Magic
I do believe in an everyday sort of magic—the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re alone.
—Charles de Lint
Sunday Inspiration: Tears
There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried.
—Oscar Romero
Sunday Inspiration: Words
Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
—Tom Stoppard
Sunday Inspiration: Laughter
Laughter is the hand of God on the shoulder of a troubled world.
—Grady Nutt