Thought for Today

“Decide that you are going to do everything in your power to live a simply beautiful life and live your life to the fullest every day… and you will find happiness.” —Dr. Robert Puff, Happiness Expert, Author, Clinical Psychologist

Thought for Today

“Crises reveal character. When we are put to the test the hidden resources of our character are revealed exactly.” — Oswald Chambers Disciples Indeed

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“Live out of your imagination, not your history.” — attributed to Stephen Covey [Source: Brainy Quotes]

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“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as quoted in My Country Vol. 2, No. 3 (September 1968) by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23

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“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” — Albert Schweitzer, Kulturphilosophie (1923)

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“For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore, the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self. — Thomas Merton [Source: The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University.]

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Vulnerability—being imperfect—is what makes us human, authentic, and lovable. — Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. [From The Blessings of Imperfection Magazine May, 2004]

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“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, that pursuit must go on. ” — John F. Kennedy [Source: Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 1963]

Thought for Today

“My aspiration does not consist so much in defending my truth but rather to live it out”. —Raimon Panikkar

Thought for Today

“A religious man is a person … whose greatest passion is compassion.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel in New York Journal-American (5 April 1963) [Source: wikiquote]