Monthly Archives: November 2011

“People are opportunities.  The gift is in the interaction  and the connection with another person,  whether it lasts forever or not.”  Colleen Seifer 

“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”  Benjamin Franklin

“We can live without religion and meditation,  but we cannot survive without human affection.”  14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso

“In the spiritual life  nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly  than in how we relate to each other,  in how we make, sustain and are friends.”  James Ishmael Ford 

“If you’re walking down the right path  and you’re willing to keep walking,  eventually you’ll make progress.”  President Barack Obama 

“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, s  hare a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s,  smile at someone and receive a smile in return,  are to me continual spiritual exercises.” Leo Buscaglia

“I believe that every person is born with talent.”  Maya Angelou

“I love quotations because  it is a joy to find thoughts one might have,  beautifully expressed with much authority  by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.”  Marlene Dietrich