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Sunday Inspiration: True to Oneself
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
—Frederick Douglass
Sunday Inspiration: Effort
All things are difficult before they are easy.
—Thomas Fuller
Sunday Inspiration: Individuality
Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own.
Bruce Lee
Sunday Inspiration: Holding People Down
You can’t hold someone down without staying down with them.
—Booker T. Washington
Sunday Inspiration: Work
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
—Frederick Douglass
Sunday Inspiration: Choirs
I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
—Paul McCartney
Sunday Inspiration: Money
Money doesn’t change people. It merely unmasks them.
—Henry Ford
Sunday Inspiration: Helpers
When I was a boy and would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
—Fred Rogers
Sunday Inspiration: Anger
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
—Thomas à Kempis
Sunday Inspiration: Children
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
—Frederick Douglass
