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Sunday Inspiration: Those Who Have Nothing

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.
—Federico García Lorca

Sunday Inspiration: A Simple Answer

To every complex question, there is a simple answer—and it it always wrong.
—Bob Keeshan aka Captain Kangaroo

Sunday Inspiration: The Character of a Man

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sunday Inspiration: Two Things Define You

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.
—George Bernard Shaw

Sunday Inspiration: A Confession of Character

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday Inspiration: The Wheels of Injustice

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sunday Inspiration: Mistakes

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
—Eleanor Roosevelt

Sunday Inspiration: To Live

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.
—Oscar Wilde

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: Grief

I have decided that the only way to live is to embrace grief. For grief only exists where love lived first.
—Franchesca Cox