Good Thoughts to Live By #9

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.  1 John 4:11

I decorated for my Valentine.  He's even got a heart on his eye medicine bottle.

Journeys bring power and love back into you.  If you can’t go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self.  They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them.
  -Jalal Al-Din Rumi


Every day you must say to yourself, “Today I am going to begin.”
  -Jean Pierre De Caussade SJ

This says, "Be My Valentine," though it is hard to read.  He certainly is mine and I appreciate the person he is.  In the quote below, I must say my husband has earned some idle time in his later years.  After 24 years of service in the Air Force, during the Vietnam Era--three tours there), and 19 years of teaching elementary students, plus serving as a bishop in his ward, along with many more thousands upon thousands of volunteer service hours in community and church work, he certainly has been industrious.  His current church calling is teaching ten-year-old children .

To do a great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

  -Samuel Butler


You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
  -Mahatma Gandi


Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
  -Edwin Hubbel Chapin


Doing you best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
  -Oprah Winfrey


You really can change the world if you care enough.
  -Marian Wright Edelman


The purpose of life is to discover your gift.   The meaning of life is giving your gift away.
  -David Viscott

In this photo is a Thomas Kinkade painting.  He is a highly most loved and accomplished artists.  He is called "The painter of light," and he "gives" his light away to help people see the light, beauty, love, and God's hand in the world.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
  -John F.  Kennedy


Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
  -Plato


No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
  -Aesop


O Lord, give me understanding concerning Thyself, for I cannot understand Thee except by means of Thee.
  -Sufi Prayer


From the moment we cease trying to swim upstream and begin to flow with the current, something changes within us.
  -Arthur Sokoloff


To attend to creation is to attend to God.  To attend to the moment is to attend to eternity.
  -Pirke Avot


A monk was asked, “What do you do there in the monastery?”  He replied, “We fall and get up, we fall and get up, we fall and get up.”
 St. Benedict