Quotes

"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?" ~ Dr. Suess

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” ~Robert Frost

"My deepest awareness of myself is I am loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to deserve it or earn it." ~ Brennan Manning

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." ~Helen Keller

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ~Howard Thurman

"In the end it is not the words of our enemies we will remember, but the silence of our friends." ~Martin Luther King Jr.

"Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.” ― Henri J.M. Nouwen 

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. ~William Shakespeare

“Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.” ~Os Guinness

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. ~Ghandi