Quotes November 23, 2020

Quotes courtesy of Daily Good

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world — the company of those who have known suffering
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
Serbian Proverb
 
 
 
 
Being highly sensitive does not at all rule out being, in your own way, a tenacious survivor.
Elaine N. Aron
 
 
 
 
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 
 
 
 
We owe our loyalty to each other and to our children’s children, not to party politics.
DaShanne Stokes
 
 
 
 
A single rose can be my garden…a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia
 
 
 
 
Never does love’s compassionate eye turn from us.
Julian of Norwich
 
 
 
 
If you have built castles in the air; your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.
Florence Nightingale
 
 
 
 
We’re the promise of one people, one breath declaring to one another: I see you. I need you. I am you.
Richard Blanco
 
 
 
 
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis
 
 
 
 
Natural farming is more than just a revolution in agricultural techniques. It is the practical foundation of a spiritual movement, of a revolution to change the way man lives.
Masanobu Fukuoka
 
 
 
 
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
Theodore Dreiser
 
 
 
 
To bless all without distinction is the ultimate form of giving, because those you bless will never know from whence came the sudden ray that burst through the clouds of their skies, and you will rarely be a witness to the sunlight in their lives.
Pierre Pradervand
 
 
 
 
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well, can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Pema Chodron
 
 
 
 
After all, what are any of us after but the conviction of belonging?
Wallace Stegner
 
 
 
 
When the earth is sick and dying,
There will come a tribe of people
From all races
Who will put their faith in deeds,
Not words, and make the planet
Green again.
Cree Prophecy