“Even when no one else seems to recognize how truly remarkable we are, we always have ourselves, the one inexhaustible resource for positive reinforcement, the one person who will always proudly wave our personal flag.”
–Leo Buscaglia, Born for Love: Reflections on Loving, p. 16.
“Please, accept the word of this prodigal, without illustration, that God can solve all the problems we have created in our marriages. Our Creator knows that as human beings living in a sinful world, we often fail Him. He is ready to forgive us and rescue us and our marriages from satan.”
–Bob Steinkamp, Prodigals Do Come Home, p. 28.
“We were there to celebrate some of the rare intelligence capabilities that our country can actually be proud of–those of librarians. I see them as healers and magicians. Librarians can tease out of inarticulate individuals enough information about what they are after to lead them on the path of connection. They are trail guides through the forest of shelves and aisles–you turn a person loose who has limited skills, and he’ll be walloped by the branches. But librarians match up readers with the right books: ‘Hey, is this one too complicated? Then why don’t you give this one a try?'”
–Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually), p. 153
“God never gives guidance for two steps at a time. I must take one step, and then I get light for the next. This keeps the heart in abiding dependence upon God.”
–C. H. Mackintosh, quoted in Then Sings My Soul, by Robert J. Morgan
“As long as we continue to seek love, some failure is bound to occur. But hurt is a strong impetus for action. When we seek to find the causes of our failures, we always emerge wiser. We gain new alternatives for our old behaviors and acquire new resources for future encounters. This is certainly not failure. Rather, it is the way that produces lasting change. It is the way of insight and growth. It is the way of love.”
–Leo Buscaglia, Born for Love: Reflections on Loving, p. 7
“I realized once again that we’re punished not for our hatred, for not forgiving people, but by it.”
–Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually), p. 129
“My central message here is when you bring more positive experiences into your life, your hurts will diminish in importance. In fact, this is the first step to taking responsibility for how you feel and beginning to forgive. If I rent out more and more space in my mind to appreciating my children or the loveliness of a rainy day, there is as a result less space and time for dwelling on the hurts.”
–Dr. Fred Luskin, Forgive for Good
“The Web is no longer just a place to search for resources. It’s a place to find people, to exchange ideas, to demonstrate our creativity before an audience.”
–Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, blog, 21st Century Collaborative, “Learning 2.0,” http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com/blog/2007/08/learning-20.html
“Often the only way to look clearly at this extraordinary universe is through fantasy, fairy tale, myth.”
–Madeleine L’Engle, Margaret A. Edwards Award Acceptance Speech, June 27, 1998.
Quoted in Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, Volume 12, no. 1, Fall 1998.