Quotes of Note
Shared at the June 2013 Faculty Retreat
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“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the
most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more
power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.” – Rachel Naomi Remen
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“The one thing that makes life worth living is to serve a cause.” – Lucy Wheelock
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THIRD GRADE SURVIVAL KIT:
A Star - to remind you to always do your best
A Toothpick - to remind you to pick out the good qualities in yourself and others
An Eraser - to remind you that everyone makes mistakes and that is OK
A Band Aid - to remind you feelings can get hurt easily
A Sponge - to remind you to soak up information and knowledge
A Ribbon - to remind you that friendship and kindness ties us all together
A Penny - to remind you that you are very valuable
A Rubber Band - to remind you to be flexible
CONFETTI !!! - to remind you to have FUN!!!
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“A community is only being created when its members accept that they are not going to achieve great
things, that they are not going to be heroes, but simply live each day with new hope, like children, in
wonderment as the sun rises and in thanksgiving as it sets. Community is only being created when
they have recognized that the greatness of man is to accept his insignificance, his human condition
and his earth, and to give thanks for having in a finite body the seeds of eternity which are visible in
small and daily gestures of love and forgiveness. The beauty of man is in this fidelity to the wonder
of each day.” – Jean Vanier, Community and Growth
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“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
– Salman Rushdie
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“If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too.”
– Dr. Seuss
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“Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.” – Chinese proverb
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Friendship
A friend is a wingman.
A friend can be lead.
A friend is there when there’s a need.
– From Taps on the Walls: Poems from the Hanoi Hilton by John Borling
Quotes of Note
Shared at the June 2013 Faculty Retreat (cont.)
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Remember the importance of self-care.
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“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt
with the heart.” – Helen Keller
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The fifth remembrance of the Buddha: My actions are my only possessions.
The first four:
I am of a nature to grow old; old age is unavoidable.
I am of a nature to become ill; sickness is unavoidable.
I am of a nature to die; death is unavoidable.
I will be separated from all that and all those I hold dear.
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“Competence without compassion is a delusion; compassion without competence is a fraud.” –
Harvey Fineberg, President of the Institute of Medicine
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“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth
peace.” – Helen Keller
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“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that
we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
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“In spite of our almost pathetic lack of knowledge about the dynamisms and possible consequences
of ‘reassurance’ and ‘advice,’ these two are perhaps the most often used forms of medical treatment.
In other words, they are the most frequent forms in which the drug ‘doctor’ is administered.” –
Michael Balint. The Doctor, His Patient, And The Illness, fourth edition. (New York: International
Universities Press, 1974), 116.
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“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in
you.” – Pericles
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Where Does the Temple Begin,
Where Does It End?
There are things you can’t reach. But
you can reach out to them, and all day long.
The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of God.
And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier.
Quotes of Note
Shared at the June 2013 Faculty Retreat (cont.)
The snake slides away; the fish jumps, like a little lily,
out of the water and back in; the goldfinches sing
from the unreachable top of the tree.
I look; morning to night I am never done with looking.
Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around
as though with your arms open.
And thinking: maybe something will come, some
shining coil of wind,
or a few leaves from any old tree –
they are all in this too.
And now I will tell you the truth.
Everything in the world
comes.
At least, closer.
And, cordially.
Like the nibbling, tinsel-eyed fish; the unlooping snake.
Like goldfinches, little dolls of gold
fluttering around the corner of the sky
of God, the blue air.
~ Mary Oliver ~
(Why I Wake Early)
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“As much as we are all experts, we are still novices.” – Lawrence Scott Rachwal