Forgiveness is having the courage to take down the walls that we think are there to protect us.
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A blog for posting Light Moment daily emails from Chaplain Lavender Kelley at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
Forgiveness is having the courage to take down the walls that we think are there to protect us.
- unknown
“Revelation is the silent, imperceptible manifestation of God in history. It is the still, small voice: it is the inevitableness, the regularity of nature.”
- Herbert Loewe
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
~Unknown
“One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.”
~ Sam Levenson
“The most beautiful flowers grow in the beaming light rather than the shield of shade. In this way, people are like flowers.”
- Anonymous
“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”
~ Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.”
~ Henry van Dyke
Three things restore a person’s good spirits: beautiful sounds, sights, and smells.
- Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 57b
“It’s not what you do once in a while, it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.”
- Jenny Craig
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The circumstances in life don't make or break you, they reveal who you really are.”
~ Richard Carlson
“If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you'll have more success than you could possibly have imagined.”
- Roger Caras
“In the pursuit of happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up.”
- R.H. Grenville
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.”
- Victor Hugo
“The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
“Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.”
~ Edward de Bono
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.”
~ Anne Lamott