Darrell J. Pursiful

Sunday Inspiration: Courage

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.
—Maya Angelou

Sunday Inspiration: The Price of Hate

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
—Eldridge Cleaver

Sunday Inspiration: Mastery

What is a master but a master student?
—Neil Peart

Sunday Inspiration: Play

Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.
—Kay Redfield Jamison

Sunday Inspiration: A Revolution of Love

Peacemaking doesn’t mean passivity. It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice, the act of disarming evil without destroying the evildoer, the act of finding a third way that is neither fight nor flight but the careful, arduous pursuit of reconciliation and justice. It is about a revolution of love that is big enough to set both the oppressed and the oppressors free.
—Shane Claiborne

Sunday Inspiration: To Be of Value

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
—Albert Einstein

Sunday Inspiration: Friends

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
—Alice Walker

Sunday Inspiration: A Great Teacher

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist…. It might even be the greatest of the arts, since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
—John Steinbeck

Sunday Inspiration: Only by Love

The world is violent and mercurial – it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love—love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent, being a writer, being a painter, being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.
—Tennessee Williams

Sunday Inspiration: Life Is like a Garden

Life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.
—Leonard Nimoy

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