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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Happiness?
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
- Sydney J. Harris
Be Kind
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
- Philo of Alexandria
Extending Compassion
As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others — what and whom we can work with, and how — becomes wider.
- Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart
The Wisdom of the Dalai Lama
You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.
- Dalai Lama
What Is the Mark of True Civilization
Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society.
- César Chávez
Loving without Barriers
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
- Maya Angelou
We Are Created by Love
I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.
- Wendell Berry
Ode to Dirt
Dear dirt, I am sorry I slighted you,
I thought you were only the background
for the leading characters—the plants
and animals and human animals.
It’s as if I had loved only the stars
and not the sky which gave them space
in which to shine …
- Sharon Olds
Love’s Weaving
Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.
- David Levithan
Planting
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
- Unknown, though attributed to Martin Luther
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