And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
I've practiced centering prayer. I've contemplatively prayed. I've prayed liturgically. . . I've benefited from each, and I still do. In ways you'll see, elements of each style are still with me.
Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason. Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. And those wouldn't have happened had I not accepted my injury as a way to try something new.
For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.
She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, ‘All are shadows!—all are passing!—all is past!