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.
Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
You know, you don’t have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.