“Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.”
~ Eric Hoffer
A blog for posting Light Moment daily emails from Chaplain Lavender Kelley at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
-Voltaire
“Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.”
- Anna Lappe
“Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.”
~ Ramona C. Carroll
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’”
~ William A. Ward
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
~ Scott Adams
“Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
~ Albert Camus
“‘Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights”
- Dag Hammarskjold
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked”
- Bernard Meltzer
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, it is the parent of all the others.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.”
- Hardy D.
“There is no delight in owning anything unshared.”
- Seneca
Children's Memorial Hospital is hosting an American Red Cross blood drive today from Noon-7 p.m. at Children's Memorial Research Center, Wolfson Lecture Hall, 2430 N. Halsted
“May you never surrender to the night because light will persist in calling and guiding you.”
- a Hanukkah blessing
Yesterday evening was the first day of the Jewish Festival of Hanukkah. For more information, please consider the following sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanukah
http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday7.htm