“All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem
brings us face to face with another problem.”
Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968
‘Strength to Love,’ 1963
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Weapon
“The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.”
Mark Twain, 1835-1910
Stress
“Stress is an ignorant state.
It believes that everything is an emergency.
Nothing is that important.”
Natalie Goldberg
Stop and Think
“Before you do anything, think.
If you do something to try and impress someone,
to be loved, accepted or even to get someone’s attention,
stop and think.
So many people are busy trying to create an image,
they die in the process.”
Salma Hayek
Integrity and Knowledge
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless,
and knowledge without integrity
is dangerous and dreadful.”
Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784
Stop, Cease, Look
“In the name of God, stop a moment,
cease your work, look around you.”
Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910
Moments
“If we take care of the moments,
the years will take care of themselves.”
Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004
Good Lives
Roan Mountain
“There is no shortage of good days.
It is good lives that are hard to come by.”
Annie Dillard, ‘The Writing Life’
Remember
“Blessed are those who can give
without remembering,
and take without forgetting.”
Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
Oh, sleep
“Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834
Storyteller
“Jesus was not a theologian.
He was God who told stories.”
Madeleine L’Engle
