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- It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money can out us out of…
- We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the…
- Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the…
- A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation where the keepers…
- Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going…
- It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we are - and…
- Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step along the way…
- Contemplation is a very dangerous activity. It not only brings us face to face with God. It brings us, as well, face to face with…
- Lent is the time for trimming the soul and scrapping the sludge off a life turned slipshod. Lent is about taking stock of time, even…
- The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.
- For centuries the church has confronted the human community with role models of greatness. We call them saints when what we really often mean to…
- Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it ends. Life is…
- All of us wrestle with the angels of our inabilities all the time. We live in fear that our incapacities will be exposed. We posture…
- Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression.
- Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get…
- Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time. It is the…
- It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us.
- Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or, more likely, for shock.…
- Beauty scatters the seeds of hope in us.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect - anad that…
- Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for us to wait…
- Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom and fullness of…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong