Our Brothers Keeper
“We are not only our brother’s keeper; in countless large and small ways we are our brother’s maker.”
- Bonaro Overstreet
The Best You Know How
“You did the best you know how. Now that you know better, you’ll do better.”
- Maya Angelou
The Words We Use
“Like paths and alleys overgrown with hardy, rank-growing weeds, the words we use are overgrown with our individual, private, provincial associations, which tend to choke the meaning.”
- Stefan Themerson
Two Are Better Than One
“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls for he has no one to help him up.”
-Ecclesiastes 4:9, 10
Anyway
“People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, People may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, People may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, They may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.”
- Mother Teresa
The Illusion of Communication
“The problem with communication … is the illusion that it has been accomplished.”
- George Bernard Shaw
Listen Completely
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
- Ernest Hemingway
