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Sunday Inspiration: Lighthouses

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
—Anne Lamott

Sunday Inspiration: Being Human Together

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
—Desmond Tutu

Sunday Inspiration: Chains

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
—Voltaire

Sunday Inspiration: Worry

Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow; it empties today of strength.
—Corrie ten Boom

Sunday Inspiration: The Greatest Mistake

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
—Edmund Burke

Sunday Inspiration: The Children Are Always Ours

The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.
—James Baldwin

Sunday Inspiration: Liars

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
—Rudyard Kipling

Sunday Inspiration: Making a Difference

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
—Jim Henson

Sunday: Today Is a Gift

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.
—Babatunde Olatunji

Sunday Inspiration: Always

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it—always.
—Mahatma Gandhi