Saturday, September 5, 2009
“In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by the number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring…, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.”
—Marge Kennedy
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Just wanted to start a place to keep quotations (famous or not) that are meaningful…perhaps even a reflection on those quotes, notes on where I heard them, etc. Feel free to add your own to the board…
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“A ship in harbor is safe. That is not what ships are made for.”
- Gerald Manley Hopkins
Subhan, do you remember this? It was on a bookmark you gave me many years ago when we all lived in the house on 19th in Hattiesburg. I still have the bookmark, too. It and you have made a forever impression on my life, and I love you and thank you. Blessings.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that
reflects it.”
- Edith Wharton
For Aziza, on the day after her birthday. I love you. AV
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Friday, March 27, 2008
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June 28, 2008
“I have been studying the straits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositons of man. The result is humiliating to me.”
~ Mark Twain
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September 8, 2008
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.”
~ Anatole Franc
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September 29, 2008
“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability…To be alive is to be vulnerable.”
~ Madeleine L’Engle
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May 27, 2009
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” ~Dr Seuss
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June 27, 2009
“What would Rumi do?” ~ Ronnie Blackwell
(said just before a barrage of dope slaps landed on him)
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July 23, 2009
Yet in 35 years of talking to the Dalai Lama, and covering him everywhere from Zurich to Hiroshima, as a non-Buddhist, skeptical journalist, I’ve found him to be as deeply confident, and therefore sunny, as anyone I’ve met. And I’ve begun to think that his almost visible glow does not come from any mysterious or unique source. Indeed, mysteries and rumors of his own uniqueness are two of the things that cause him most instantly to erupt into warm laughter. The Dalai Lama I’ve seen is a realist (which is what makes his optimism the more impressive and persuasive).
~Pico Iyer (NY Times, July 23, 2009: The Doctor is Within)
What was it she said at dinner?
‘I guess I’m being too analytical’ Maggie
‘Really?’ Ashi
‘Do you know what that means?’ Ron
‘Hmmm, let me break it down . . .’ Maggie