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Sunday Inspiration: Dreams

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
—Langston Hughes

Sunday Inspiration: The Purpose of Human Life

The purpose of human life is to serve, to show compassion and the will to help others.
—Albert Schweitzer

Sunday Inspiration: Making a Difference

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
—Jane Goodall

Sunday Inspiration: Beginners

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!
—Thomas Merton

Sunday Inspiration: Inventing Our Lives

All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people.
—Ursula K. Le Guin

Sunday Inspiration: True Wealth

True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.
—César Chávez

Sunday Inspiration: Reading

Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
—Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Sunday Inspiration: Our Job

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
—Thomas Merton

Sunday Inspiration: Like Brothers

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
—Martin Luther King Jr.

Sunday Inspiration: Keeping Silent

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
—Victor Hugo