quotes I like

Here's some quotes I hope you find as meaningful as I did.

"You don't have to do anything sensational in order to love or to be loved.  The real drama of life (that which matters most) is rarely center stage."

"Transitions can be times of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss.  To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind."

"There never has been...and there never will be-in the history of earth-another person exactly like you."

"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 people have few and generously share them."

"Caring comes from the Gothic word kara, which means 'to lament.' So caring is not what a powerful person gives to a weaker one. Caring is a matter of being there...lamenting right along with the one who hurts."

"Whether we're a preschooler, or a young teen, a graduating senior or a retired person, we human beings want to know that we're acceptable,  that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others."

"The thing I remember best about 'successful people' I've met is their obvious delight in what they do.  And their delight seems to have very little to do with the trappings of worldly success."

"You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices.  Hopefully those choices come from a deep sense of who you are and who you want to become."

"There is one thing that evil cannot stand, and that is forgiveness."

"When we love a person we accept all of that person:  the strong with the fearful, the true mixed with the facade. And the only way we do that is by accepting ourselves that way."

"There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person."

"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."

"Human beings are so much alike...yet all so different.  How comforting to see the endless variety of people:  comforting because one person's differences from another show us that it's all right for us to be different in many ways, too."