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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
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Joy in Unlikely Places
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Best Things in Life
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as… Continue Reading “The Best Things in Life”
Wisdom from Blake
To see a world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. – William Blake
The Secret to Happiness and Contentment
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. – Lao Tzu
Every Little Thing We Do Is Important
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. – Blessed Mother Teresa
Turn Your Face to the Sun
Turn your face to the sun, and the shadows fall behind you. – Maori proverb
The Closeness of God
Will you ever understand how near God is to you? Lalla, fourteenth century C.E.
Helen Keller’s Words of Wisdom
So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied. – Helen Keller
Weekly Photo Challenge: Family
Truly, Earth is our family, and we need to help her to flourish as much as diligently as we prepare our children for the future. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. – Native American Proverb
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