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“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” – Vincent Van Gogh “I feel that my goal in life is to help […]
Critics
‘It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who […]
Disabled?
Peter: “Many years ago, I interviewed a woman as part of a report on a book launch. She was a trained school teacher, who had lived in a L’arche community in England for a time. One day two of the men in the community, who had severe intellectual disabilities, took her aside to tell her […]
Life is like…
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends. –Joseph Campbell, Creative Mythology
Best Quotes
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not have been a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must […]
Those who have a family-member with a ‘developmental delay’ with identify with this
God Lives Under The Bed I envy Kevin. My brother Kevin thinks God lives under his bed. At least that’s what I heard him say one night. He was praying out loud in his dark bedroom, and I stopped to listen, ‘Are you there, God?’ he said. ‘Where are you? Oh, I see. Under the […]
Be slow to criticize or make a negative justment about someone else
“I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.” Dylan Thomas ***** “Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise can […]
Wisdom for living
“In this culture of war and violence, make trouble for peace and nonviolence. In this culture of hatred, hostility and division, make trouble for all-inclusive, universal, unconditional love. In this culture of nuclear weapons and environmental destruction, make trouble for disarmament, ‘for a world without weapons or war or starvation.” -John Dear- “Go confidently in […]
Death
“There’s nothing certain, except death and taxes.” – so the saying goes, and probably if you work in the funeral business, or the tax office, you’d never be unemployed. I attended a funeral recently, and the large crowd there spilled over into the foyer, from the parlour’s chapel. No seating was provided to such overflow, […]
Success
“Success is not who has the most; success is who needs the least.”
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