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 12th 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!
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.”
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
Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision.
- Helen Keller
The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite…
~ Robert MacIver
If you work hard on your job, you make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune.
~ Jim Rohn
Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.
~ Henri Matisse
Migrations speak to us, not just as observers, but as integral parts of nature.
- Scott Weidensaul
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
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
~ Jean Giraudoux
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”
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
Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom.
~ Adlai Stevenson
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!!!
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
Great tranquility of heart is [one] who cares for neither praise nor blame.
~Thomas à Kempis
Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.
- John A. Morrison
