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Sunday Inspiration: Growing Old

It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
—Harry Emerson Fosdick

Sunday Inspiration: Humility

A great person is always willing to be little.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday Inspiration: Wisdom

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
—Immanuel Kant

Sunday Inspiration: Extraordinary

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
—C. S. Lewis

Sunday Inspiration: Wonder

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
—Socrates

Sunday Inspiration: Enemies

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
—Winston Churchill

Sunday Inspiration: Education

Education isn’t something you can finish.
—Isaac Asimov

Sunday Inspiration: Reading

We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read themselves.
—Neil Gaiman

Sunday Inspiration: Disagreements

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday Inspiration: An Open Mind

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
—Terry Pratchett