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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

~ Native American Proverb

 

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Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

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Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.

~ Vince Lombardi

 

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If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go.

~ Anton Chekov

 

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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him [or her] up. 

~ Jesse Jackson

 

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A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

~ Douglas Pagels

 

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We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring. 

~ David Grayson

 

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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

~ William Feather

 

Welcome to Mascot Week at Light Moment! This week we will feature meaningful quotes paired with sports mascot pictures.

Please note: The mascots chosen are not meant to indicate a preference by the Pastoral Care Department.

 

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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

~ Albert Camus

 

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While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.

~ Lady Bird Johnson

 

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Saints are sinners who kept on going.

~Robert Louis Stevenson

 

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A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.

~Irish Proverb

 

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Messages are everwhere but can’t reach you if you don’t stop to look.

- anonymous

 

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A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.

~Irish Proverb

 

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“From ‘no thing’, movement arises naturally.

From inaction, comes action.

From emptiness, comes shape and form.

And from stillness, comes energy and flow.”

- Gabriella Goddard

 

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Hindsight may be clearer but we have to focus on what is in front of us in order to arrive safely.

- Anonymous

 

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Repentance is like climbing a ladder. We can't reach a new rung if we cling to the previous one.

- Rabbi Rachel Barenblat

 

Yesterday evening began Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.  For more information, please consider the following sources:

www.jewfaq.org/holiday4.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur

 

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“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.”

- Bill Watterson

 

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It takes shadows to show us the true depth and richness around us.

- Anonymous

 

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The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. 

~Bill Beattie

 

Today is World Teachers’ Day (http://www.5oct.org/) and National Safe Schools Day (http://nationalsafeschoolsday.wordpress.com/). Help make schools a place where all participants in education thrive!