Words

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that. Because what the world needs is people who've come alive." - [Howard Thurman]

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning." - [C.S. Lewis]

"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no "ordinary" people. You have never talked to a mere mortal." - [C.S. Lewis]

"And this makes all the difference. This changes everything." - [DCB]

"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." - [William Penn]

"Leaders expect the best of the people around them." - [Warren Bennis]

“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.” - [Dr. Seuss]

"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all." - [Winston Churchill]

"Look at the nations and watch—
and be utterly amazed.
For I am going to do something in your days
that you would not believe,
even if you were told." - [Habakkuk 1:5]

"Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above" - [Robert Robinson]

"And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked." - [Dr. Seuss]

“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good." - [Dr. Seuss]

"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." - [Thomas Carruthers]

"No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear." - [C.S. Lewis]

"I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." - [C.S. Lewis]

"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." - [C.S. Lewis]

"Lamb says somewhere that if, of three friends (A, B, and C), A should die, then B loses not only A but “A’s part in C,” while C loses not only A but “A’s part in B.” In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets. Now that Charles is dead, I shall never again see Ronald’s reaction to a specifically Caroline joke. Far from having more of Ronald, having him “to myself” now that Charles is away, I have less of Ronald. Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, “Here comes one who will augment our loves.” For in this love “to divide is not to take away.” Of course the scarcity of kindred souls – not to mention practical considerations about the size of rooms and the audibility of voices – set limits to the enlargement of the circle; but within those limits we possess each friend not less but more as the number of those with whom we share him increases. In this, Friendship exhibits a glorious “nearness by resemblance” to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases the fruition which each has of God. For every soul, seeing Him in her own way, doubtless communicates that unique vision to all the rest. That, says an old author, is why the Seraphim in Isaiah’s vision are crying “Holy, Holy, Holy” to one another (Isaiah VI, 3) The more we thus share the Heavenly Bread between us, the more we shall all have.” - [C.S. Lewis]

"No man knows how bad he is until he has tried very hard to be good." - [C.S. Lewis]

"You wanna be really brave? Then have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them wonder why you're still smiling." - [Elizabethtown]