Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Leadership is a concept we often resist. It seems immodest, even self-aggrandizing, to think of ourselves as leaders. But if it is true that we are part of a community, then leadership is everyone's vocation, and it can be an evasion to insist that it is not. When we live in the close-knit ecosystem called community, everyone follows and everyone leads.

Parker J. Palmer's Popular Quotes

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

- Parker J. Palmer

Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will…

- Parker J. Palmer

The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its lo…

- Parker J. Palmer

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

- Parker J. Palmer

The human soul doesn't want to be fixed, it simply wants to be seen and heard. The soul is like a wild animal - tough, resilient and shy. When we go …

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One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at …

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I am very, very uneasy with churches that have basically said, "Well, since that's what people want and that's what sells, then were going to do our …

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Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto my st…

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We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

- Parker J. Palmer