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Sunday Inspiration: Love Has Got to Stop Whispering

Hate has talked so loudly for so long. Greed has talked so loudly for so long. Liars have talked so loudly for so long. Love has got to stop whispering.
—Marianne Williamson

Sunday Inspiration: Appreciation

I believe that appreciation is a holy thing—that when we look for what’s best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we’re doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we’re participating in something sacred.
—Fred Rogers

Sunday Inspiration: True Heroism

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost.
—Arthur Ashe

Sunday Inspiration: Learning and Studying

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.
—John Dewey

Sunday Inspiration: Sitting

Sitting is a gift. It’s a gift that brings clarity about the bigger picture of life and peace in your bones.
—Elizabeth Hagan

Sunday Inspiration: Doubt and Belief

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
—Henri Poincaré

Sunday Inspiration: Music

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
—Victor Hugo

Sunday Inspiration: Meaning and Purpose

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
—Pablo Picasso

Sunday Inspiration: Cruel People

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
—Tennessee Williams

Sunday Inspiration: A Successful Man

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
—David Brinkley