Quotes May 13, 2021

Remember, every treasure comes with a price.
Kevin Kwan,
writer
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
The biggest challenge I’ve had to overcome is not just finding success, but rather finding success without compromising who I am.
XiXi Yang,
journalist, media personality, entrepreneur
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
Read with your ears.
Gerald M. Hopkins
 
 
 
 
One of the quietest revolutions in Religion 101 follows a student’s recognition that he or she has a worldview, a particular way of viewing reality that it is not the only way. A worldview is a wave, but not the entire ocean.
Barbara Brown Taylor
 
 
 
 
Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.
Fred Rogers
 
 
 
 
We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.
David Abram
 
 
 
 
Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine will be food.
Hippocrates
 
 
 
 
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
Rumi
 
 
 
 
To understand light you need first to have been buried in the deep-down dark.
Robert Macfarlane
 
 
 
 
A kitten is, in the animal world, what a rosebud is in the garden.
Robert Southey
 
 
 
 
There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
The truth is in the mystery.
Akira Kurosawa,
film director, screenwriter, producer
 
 
 
 
One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
Vincent Van Gogh
 
 
 
 
You’ve got to do it by yourself and you can’t do it alone.
Martin Rutte – Speaker-Author
 
 
 
 
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang con Goethe – 1749-1832 – Poet-Novelist-Scientist
 
 
 
 
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last…Everything is waiting for you.
David Whyte