Darrell J. Pursiful

Sunday Inspiration: The First Definition of Love

The first definition of love is to be there. This is a practice. How can you love if you are not there? In order to love you have to be there, body and mind united. A true lover knows that the practice of mindfulness is the foundation of true love.
—Thich Nhat Hanh

Sunday Inspiration: Peace

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
—Eleanor Roosevelt

Sunday Inspiration: Humility

Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate.
—Saint John Climacus

Sunday Inspiration: Solitude

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
—Blaise Pascal

Sunday Inspiration: Because of Who You Are

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.
—Mother Teresa

Sunday Inspiration: Failure

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.
—Charles Bukowski

Sunday Inspiration: Change

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
—Viktor Frankl

Sunday Inspiration: Gratitude

Be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
—Carl Sagan

Sunday Inspiration: Irritation

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
—Carl Jung

Sunday Inspiration: The Most Beautiful Thing

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
—Albert Einstein

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