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

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There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass media, the academy and organized religion, our good words tend to float away even as they leave our lips, ascending to an altitude where they neither reflect nor connect with the human condition. We long for words like love, truth, and justice to become flesh and dwell among us. But in our violent world, it's risky business to wrap our frail flesh around words like those, and we don't like the odds.

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.

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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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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…

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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…

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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.

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

- Parker J. Palmer