Choose Your Neighbors Wisely


It is discouraging to try and be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood.

            -William Castle

'I Am Only One Man, But...'


The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

            -Hubert H. Humphrey

Reflecting on Past Suffering


That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.

              -Thomas Fuller

Kindness


Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

            -Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

An Instrument of Peace


Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injustice, pardon,
Where there is doubt, faith,
Where there is despair, hope,
Where there is dark, light,
Where there is sadness, joy.

            -St. Francis of Assissi

Love

The course of true love never did run smooth.

            -William Shakespeare

Love


They do not love that do not show their love.

            -William Shakespeare

Loneliness


Loneliness… is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

            -Thomas Wolfe

Success


How can they say that my life is not a success?  Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

            -Logan Pearsall Smith

Retrospection


Life must be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards.

            -Soren Kierkegaard