Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be… — Joan D. Chittister Blessing Copy Share Image
Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective.… — Joan D. Chittister Bears Copy Share Image
Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but… — Joan D. Chittister Arrogant Copy Share Image
Only ideas keep ideas flowing. When we close our minds to what is new, simply because we decide not to bother with… — Joan D. Chittister Bother Copy Share Image
Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those… — Joan D. Chittister Ashes Copy Share Image
Beware of your definition of success: If it has more to do with what other people think of you than it does… — Joan D. Chittister Ability Copy Share Image
Imagination begins when it' s raining too hard to go out and play and you become really absorbed in something you would… — Joan D. Chittister Art Copy Share Image
A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done. — Joan D. Chittister Done Copy Share Image
The human race sees with one eye, the male eye; hears with one ear, the male ear; and thinks with one half… — Joan D. Chittister Decision Copy Share Image
There is always new life trying to emerge in each of us. Too often we ignore the signs of resurrection and cling… — Joan D. Chittister Art of life Copy Share Image
We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the… — Joan D. Chittister Body Copy Share Image
Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it… — Joan D. Chittister Autumn Copy Share Image
To be a presence of perpetual thanksgiving may be the ultimate goal of life. The thankful person is the one for whom… — Joan D. Chittister Exercise Copy Share Image
We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of… — Joan D. Chittister Becoming Copy Share Image
Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for… — Joan D. Chittister Harvest Copy Share Image
June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life. — Joan D. Chittister Cold Copy Share Image
“We need to think again about the beauties of age, its freedom and its splendor. It is the “fresh life within” that… — Joan D. Chittister Life Copy Share Image
To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues. — Joan D. Chittister Character Copy Share Image
“We have watched our educational system begin to fray because we have taken weapons for granted and preferred a strong military to… — Joan D. Chittister Education Copy Share Image
Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it.… — Joan D. Chittister Able Copy Share Image
Life is an exercise in the development of feeling. When we repress feelings, we become sour and judgmental. When we live awash… — Joan D. Chittister Balance Copy Share Image
Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or, more… — Joan D. Chittister Assuming Copy Share Image
The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has… — Joan D. Chittister Achievement Copy Share Image
To be contemplative we must become converted to the consciousness that makes us one with the universe, in tune with the cosmic… — Joan D. Chittister Consciousness Copy Share Image
