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  • #1
    Ernest Hemingway
    “You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

  • #2
    Helen Keller
    “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
    Helen Keller

  • #3
    Helen Keller
    “Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
    Helen Keller

  • #4
    Helen Keller
    “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
    Helen Keller

  • #5
    Helen Keller
    “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”
    Helen Keller

  • #6
    Helen Keller
    “The highest result of education is tolerance”
    Helen Keller

  • #7
    Edward Everett Hale
    “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
    Edward Everett Hale

  • #8
    Helen Keller
    “For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.”
    Helen Keller

  • #9
    Helen Keller
    “So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”
    Helen Keller

  • #10
    Helen Keller
    “No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
    Helen Keller

  • #11
    Helen Keller
    “I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.”
    Helen Keller

  • #12
    Kent M. Keith
    The Paradoxical Commandments

    People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
    Love them anyway.

    If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
    Do good anyway.

    If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
    Succeed anyway.

    The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
    Do good anyway.

    Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
    Be honest and frank anyway.

    The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
    Think big anyway.

    People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
    Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

    What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
    Build anyway.

    People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
    Help people anyway.

    Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
    Give the world the best you have anyway.”
    Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

  • #13
    Mother Teresa
    “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #14
    Mother Teresa
    “I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”
    Mother Teresa

  • #15
    Mother Teresa
    “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #16
    Mother Teresa
    “I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #17
    Mother Teresa
    “Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #18
    Mother Teresa
    “If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #19
    Mother Teresa
    “Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.”
    Mother Theresa of Calcutta

  • #20
    Mother Teresa
    “The Simple Path
    Silence is Prayer
    Prayer is Faith
    Faith is Love
    Love is Service
    The Fruit of Service is Peace”
    Mother Teresa

  • #21
    Mother Teresa
    “Life is a game, play it.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #22
    Mother Teresa
    “How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #23
    Mother Teresa
    “May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #24
    Mother Teresa
    “Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #25
    Mother Teresa
    “Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #26
    Konstantin Jireček
    “We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.”
    Konstantin Josef Jireček

  • #27
    Mother Teresa
    “I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?”
    Mother Teresa

  • #28
    Mother Teresa
    “What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #29
    Brennan Manning
    “Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)”
    Brennan Manning The Furious Longing of God

  • #30
    Brennan Manning
    “How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!”
    Brennan Manning



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