Happy to fill in last minute for this week’s Place for All column. Then I got stressed about creating some incredibly wise words to share with the Seeley Lake community. Oh well, lean into your strengths. I love quotes. So here are a few good ones to get us through the end of the year. Happy holidays everyone!
“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from surviving bad judgment.” -Waldo Pritchard
“A perfectionist walked into a bar. Apparently it wasn’t set high enough.” – Indian Hills Community Center
“We cannot do great things on this earth. We can only do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa
“Hope is a muscle. I choose hope and then I throw my body at living in a way that makes it more likely.” -Krista Tippet
“I’ve come to know that where we think we need more self-discipline we usually need more self-love. Not just as an attitude but manifested through the routines and rituals we set up to enable the changes we desire to happen naturally and with ease.” -Playing Big by Tara Mohr
“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.” -Live in Wonder
“There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.” Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
“Today like every other day/ We wake up empty and scared./ Don’t open the door of your study/ And begin reading./ Take down a musical instrument. / Let the beauty we love be what we do./ There are hundreds of ways to kneel/ And kiss the earth.” -Rumi
“No matter the question, love is the answer.” -Liz Moore
“People overestimate what they can accomplish in one day and underestimate what they can accomplish in a year.” – Karina Harris
“Experience is a better teacher than advice.” -Sunshine Parenting
“The Master sees things as they are, without trying to control them. She lets them go their own way, and resides at the center of the circle.” - Tao de Ching by Lao-Tzu
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