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Sunday Inspiration: The Truth

People hate the truth for the sake of whatever it is that they love more than the truth. They love truth when it shines warmly on them, and hate it when it rebukes them.
—Saint Augustine

Sunday Inspiration: Every Painful Event

Every painful event contains in itself a seed of growth and liberation.
—Anthony de Mello

Sunday Inspiration: Growth

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
—Maya Angelou

Sunday Inspiration: When to Speak

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
—Plato

Sunday Inspiration: Excellence

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
—Booker T. Washington

Sunday Inspiration: You Belong to Me

One doesn’t ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says, You suffer, this is enough for me, you belong to me and I shall help you.
—Louis Pasteur

Sunday Inspiration: The Mind

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
—Plutarch

Sunday Inspiration: Perspective

All of us are together on this small Earth, yet each person thinks that he’s at the center of it.
—Albert Einstein

Sunday Inspiration: Kindness

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
—Mother Teresa

Sunday Inspiration: Goals

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
—Michelangelo