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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

~ Anne Frank

 

Pictured above are hurricane cleanup volunteers as we continue to hold those effected by hurricane Sandy in our thoughts and prayers.

 

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When we stop talking and start listening, when we stop taking and start giving, when we do what we should instead of do what we want, the lessons will come in abundance.

~ David Kantor

 

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Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

~ Winston Churchill

 

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You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

 

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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

- Madeleine Albright

 

Spiritual Care Services hopes you have found meaning in the quotes of Spiritual Care Week 2012 with the theme of “Giving Voice”.  Please know that we are always available to you!

 

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For myself, for a long time... maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn't worth hearing, and I think everyone's voice is worth hearing. So if you've got something to say, say it from the rooftops.

- Tom Hiddleston

 

There will be a service of song, prayer, and readings today as we celebrate the theme of "Giving Voice" for this year's Spiritual Care Week.  You are invited to this celebration of spiritual gifts in action on Friday, October 26, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 pm in the Pritzker Auditorium, on the 3rd floor of Feinberg Pavilion at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

 

And whether or not you can stop by this event, please know we are always available to you 24/7!  Page us at 73288.

 

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It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

- William Howell

 

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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

- Maya Angelou

 

As we continue Spiritual Care Week, please know that we are always available to you!  We can always be reached by paging 73288.

 

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Words are the voice of the heart.

- Confucius

 

We are continuing in Spiritual Care Week. 

 

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Healing must always seek to give voice to suffering, and the greater the range of words and meanings we have at our disposal, the clearer the voice becomes.

- Iona Heath

 

We are continuing in Spiritual Care Week.  Did you know that the chapel, located on the 12^th floor, is open 27/7 and has a mediation/prayer room and many religious resources available?  We hope you’ll talk with us about more ways we can support your needs!

 

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Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”

- Mary Anne Radmacher

 

Today begins Spiritual Care Week! Our theme this year is “giving voice.”

 

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May all weakness, jealousy, and malice be lifted from you and may you find the true power of the wisdom every day!

- A Navratri blessing

 

We are in the midst of the Hindu festival of Navratri.  For more information about this 10 day, 9 night festival, please consider: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navratri

 

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Is there anything worse than being blind?   Yes, a man with sight and no vision.

- Helen Keller

 

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The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite…

~ Robert MacIver

 

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If you work hard on your job, you make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune.

~ Jim Rohn

 

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Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.

~ Henri Matisse

 

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Migrations speak to us, not just as observers, but as integral parts of nature.

- Scott Weidensaul

 

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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful.  Planets, lives...  But up close a world's all dirt and rocks.  And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

 

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The best things in life are unexpected

~ Eli Khamarov

 

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Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

~ Jean Giraudoux

 

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Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

~ From the television show “The Wonder Years”

 

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God, give us grace to accept with serenity

the things that cannot be changed,

Courage to change the things

which should be changed,

and the Wisdom to distinguish

the one from the other.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

 

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Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom.

~ Adlai Stevenson

 

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Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.

~ Richard Whately

 

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The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.

~ unknown

 

Best wishes to all those who are running the Chicago Marathon today… especially those on the Lurie Children’s Hospital team!!!

 

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Delicious autumn!  My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

~ George Eliot

 

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Great tranquility of heart is [one] who cares for neither praise nor blame.

~Thomas à Kempis

 

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Words are the guides to acts; the mouth makes the first move.

- Rabbi Leon da Modena

 

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Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.

- John A. Morrison