Joan D. Chittister

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• "When we do not know what harbor we are making for," the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "no wind is the right wind." Persons have vision… Dream
• Beauty scatters the seeds of hope in us. Beauty
• Happiness does not come quickly. It is not conferred by any single event, however exciting or comforting or satisfying the event may be. It cannot… Allure
• "Ideals are like stars," Carl Schurz wrote. "You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like seafarers on the desert of waters,… Carl
• Peace comes from living a measured life. Peace comes from attending to every part of my world in a sacramental way. My relationships are not… All
• The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life,… Artist
• We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again. Called
• In scripture God brings the animals to the human for naming. In that simple act the human is brought to recognize the particular personality and… Act
• But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become. Aging
• There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult periods of life,… Acting
• The message we have internalized is clear - we are what we do and what we own, not what we are inside ourselves. Where it… Clear
• Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. Â… But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of… Ability
• Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those who are willing… Always Comes
• Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end. Becoming
• It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up.… Beyond
• Only ideas keep ideas flowing. When we close our minds to what is new, simply because we decide not to bother with it, we close… Bother
• There is always new life trying to emerge in each of us. Too often we ignore the signs of resurrection and cling to part of… Always New
• Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life. Celebrate
• Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective. We learn to… Bear
• I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist… Begin
• If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak it up, to… Fully
• Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be celebrated. Blessing
• Living well has something to do with the spirituality of wholeheartedness, of seeing life more as a grace than as a penance, as time to… Challenges
• To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues. Die
• Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. Â… It is… Becoming

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