With purpose comes hope.

“You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything... We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run.”

Lewis B. Smedes

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

...Impossible things are happening everyday...

Line from a song in Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1965 version of Cinderella

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Joseph Campbell

Listen to me and I'll sing you a song
And the time will go by
'til you never know where it's gone
Talk to me and I'll tell you my life story
Walk with me and I'll tell you my dreams of glory

James Taylor There We Are

Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.

Charles L. Allen

Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.

Nicholai Velimirovic

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Matthew 5: 3-9

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

How many times does something have to occur before it's not a coincidence anymore?
Do you believe in miracles?

"Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected." Mahatma Gandhi

Five years ago I lost my husband. Not long before he died it occurred to me that when he left this world he would become extinct. Like all of us he was one of a kind, a complete individual. Imagine what this planet would be like if everyone shared their individuality instead of trying so hard to conceal it.

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

Gandalf to Frodo in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring

All the lonely people

Where do they all come from?

All the lonely people

Where do they all belong?

(lyrics by Lennon/McCartney
pic of Eleanor Rigby statue found on web, if it's yours please let me know)

I think everyone has had the feeling of being lonely or alone, even in a crowd, but how many ever stop to really wonder why?