Darrell J. Pursiful

Sunday Inspiration: Hope

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
—Saint Augustine

Sunday Inspiration: A Meaningful Life

To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you, that’s what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself but for one’s community.
—Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Sunday Inspiration: Thankful

If you cannot be grateful for what you have received, then be thankful for what you have been spared.
—Yiddish proverb

Sunday Inspiration: Change

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
—Leo Tolstoy

Sunday Inspiration: Overcoming

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.
—Helen Keller

Sunday Inspiration: Terrified

I’ve been absolutely terrified every minute of my life—and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
—Georgia O’Keeffe

Sunday Inspiration: Humility

Truly lamentable is the person who does not have humility. He who is not able to humble himself will later on be humbled by other people. And he whom other people cannot humble, God will humble.
—Saint Antony of Optina

Sunday Inspiration: Viewing the World

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
—Muhammad Ali

Sunday Inspiration: Difficult Times

The most difficult times in our lives come from transitioning from one version of ourselves to another.
—Marcia Reynolds

Sunday Inspiration: Books

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.
—Charlaine Harris

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