Quotes December 10, 2022

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.
Harold S. Kushner – American Rabbi-Author
 
 
 
 
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
Ralph H. Blum – Author
 
 
 
 
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
Martin Luther
 
 
 
 
“Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.”
Ralph Bunche
 
 
 
 
“Forever is composed of nows.”
Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
Nature shows us the way of the cycles and impermanence of all things and awakens the heart.
Michele Kambolis
 
 
 
 
Tenderness personalizes everything to which it relates, making it possible to give it a voice, to give it the space and the time to come into existence, and to be expressed. It is thanks to tenderness that the teapot starts to talk.
Olga Tokarczuk
 
 
 
 
If you don’t understand, ask questions. If you’re uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
 
 
 
 
It’s a calming thing, to learn there’s a word for something you’ve felt all your life but didn’t know was shared by anyone else.
John Koenig