“The best thing that you can do to deal with these high speed times is to slow down, inwardly, to take a little more time for meditation, a little more time to enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea, and to look around at the people in your life with a little more love.” PeopleLooksLittlesHumanityEnjoyCan DoDealsMorningMeditationBuddhismSpeedCoffeeCupsTeaBest ThingsMore TimeSlow DownCoffee CupPeople In Your LifeHigh Speed Author:Frederick Lenz
“Man is sitting disconsolate on an anthill one morning. God asks him what the matter is and man replies that the soil is too swampy for the cultivation of the yams which God has directed him to grow. God tells him to bring in a blacksmith to dry the soil with his bellows. The contribution of humanity to this creation is so important. God could have made the world perfect if he had wanted. But he made it the way it is. So that there is a constant need for us to discuss and cooperate to make it more habitable, so the soil can yield, you see.” IfsMenWorldWayNeedsMadeImportantMatterWantedHumanityAsksGrowsPerfectMorningCreationSittingConstantMade ItDryContributionSoilYieldCultivationBlacksmithsYams Author:Chinua Achebe
“Humanity is fickle. They may dress for a morning coronation and never feel the need to change clothes for an execution in the afternoon. So Triumphal Sundays and Good Fridays always fit comfortably into the same April week.” NeedsFeelsMayHumanityMorningWeekFitClothesDressesSundayAfternoonExecutionFridayAprilNeed A ChangeFickleGood FridayCoronation Book:The Singer: A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict Source: The Singer: A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict
“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.” InspirationalFeelsI CanTodayAblePainHappinessJoyHumanityChoicesMistakeMorningWake UpEmbraceDenyMaking MistakesEvery MorningNegativityJoy HappinessCancer SurvivorFreedom To ChooseWaking Up In The MorningChoose LifeJoy And PainChoose To Be HappyLife And ChoicesChoosing HappinessYou Choose To Be Happy Author:Kevyn Aucoin
“"The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the deaths, all the cruelties, there's still something that keeps us wanting to wake up the next morning and go on with our lives - to make children, to fall in love, to continue humanity.” WorldChildrenStillsWarHumanityFallNextMorningOur LivesGoes OnHorrorWake UpFalling In LoveCrueltyUps & Downs Author:Paul Auster
“The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up in the morning, when people are ready to start the day.” PeopleWayHumanityUniverseMorningSunReadyBenefitsCome UpConvenientStart The Day Book:Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20) Source: Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)
“We're remembering both the good and the bad in our history together in this world. This isn't an attempt to make people feel bad every morning and to force them to go stick their fingers in a wall socket. We chose these things we included as a way to point people toward the possibility of transformation even while remembering the great pain we have experienced as humanity.” PeopleWorldWayFeelsPainTogetherRememberHumanityForceMorningPossibilityThis WorldWallTransformationSticksFingersEvery Morning Author:Shane Claiborne
“It happens to all of us, I concluded that Easter Sunday morning. God simply keeps reaching down into the dirt of humanity and resurrecting us from the graves we dig for ourselves through our violence, our lies, our selfishness, our arrogance, and our addictions. And God keeps loving us back to life over and over.” HappensLyingHumanityMorningViolenceAddictionGravesSelfishnessArroganceReachingSundayDirtEasterLoving LifeSunday MorningEaster Sunday Author:Nadia Bolz-Weber