We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.
When I was a boy I used to think that STRONG meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is NOT seen. Real strength has to do with helping others.
A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.
All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
Love isn’t a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle.
How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.
We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.
Parents don’t come full bloom at the birth of the first baby. In fact parenting is about growing. It’s about our own growing as much as it is about our children’s growing and that kind of growing happens little by little.
Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.
The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.
Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.
I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.
The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you.
Peace means far more than the opposite of war.
Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.
Try your best to make goodness attractive. That’s one of the toughest assignments you’ll ever be given.
The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.
I’m fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of ‘powerlessness.’ Join the club, we are not in control. God is.
Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.
I’m proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done.