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REFLECTIONS
You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.
STEVEN D. WOODHULL
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Life without faith in something is too narrow a space in which to live.
GEORGE LANCASTER SPALDING
What matters most is what we learn from living.
DORIS LESSING
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
AMY CARMICHAEL
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?”
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.
CHRISTINA BALDWIN
Doctor to patient: "I’ve treated a few cases like yours before, so I should have better luck this time.”
Things do not change; we change.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Break your mirrors! Yes, indeed — shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbour, and less about your own. I suggest this: when you get to be 30, 40, 50, or even 70 years old, you’ll get more happiness and contentment out of counting your friends than counting your dollars. You’ll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighbourhood, your town, your state, your country and your fellow human beings than you’ll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit ratings. You’ll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior. I’ve been both, so I speak from experience. Break the mirrors! Be peacemakers of the community, and you and your family will be happy.
SARGENT SHRIVER,
YALE CLASS DAY ADDRESS, 1994
Why was Pharaoh’s daughter like a shrewd milkman? She got a little prophet from the water.
Teacher: "Where’s the English Channel?” Pupil: "The second button on the left.” It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
BRENDAN BEHAN
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
I look forward to being older, when what you like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.
SUSAN SARANDON
In the long run, we are all dead
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES,
DECEMBER 1923
In the long run almost anything is possible.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES,
APRIL 1942
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
EDNA O’BRIEN
I was very proud to be made an honorary Irishman.
