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Sunday Inspiration: Flames of Achievement

Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
—Golda Meir

Sunday Inspiration: School and Life

The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
—Tom Bodett

Sunday Inspiration: The Deepest Wisdom

The deepest wisdom man can attain is to know that his destiny is to aid, to serve.
—Abraham Heschel

Sunday Inspiration: Empathy and Understanding

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient.
—Charles M. Blow

Sunday Inspiration: Change

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
—Maya Angelou

Sunday Inspiration: Humility

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.
—Albert Einstein

Sunday Inspiration: A Sense of Indebtedness

Endless wonder unlocks an innate sense of indebtedness. Within our awe there is no place for self-assertion. Within our awe we only know that all we own we owe. The world consists not of things, but of tasks.
—Abraham Heschel

Sunday Inspiration: Creativity

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
—Albert Einstein

Sunday Inspiration: A Will to Wonder

Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.
—Abraham Heschel

Sunday Inspiration: Troubles

Nothing is permanent in our troubled world. Not even our troubles.
—Charlie Chaplin