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Science improving happiness

Through [science] … the security and happiness of mankind are daily improved.

 

— Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) Chemist, Unitarian Minister, Educator

Gardeners of the Spirit

"Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness, nothing comes to birth, as without light, nothing flowers."

— May Sarton (1912-1995) Poet and Unitarian

Every hour of the light

"To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every inch of space is a miracle."

— Walt Whitman (1819-1892) American poet

Children are always watching

Don't worry that your children never listen to you. Worry that your children are always watching you.

— Robert Fulgham, Author and UU Minister

Darkness cannot drive out darkness

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.

Hatred cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

— Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King (1929-1968) Baptist minister and American civil rights activist

Good for Something

Be not simply good. Be good for something.

— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Amerian author, Unitarian and Transcendentalist

The Road to Truth

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting.

— The Buddha

Pilgrim Pledge

We pledge to walk together in the ways of truth and affection, as best we know them now or may learn them in the days to come, that we and our children may be fulfilled and that we may speak to the world in words and action of peace and goodwill.

— Covenant of the Pilgrims

The morning glory that blooms

The morning glory that blooms for an hour differs not at heart form the giant pine that lives for a thousand years.

— Zen Proverb

They are sick that surfeit with too much

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

— William Shakespeare (c. 1564-1616) English playwright and poet

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A Thought for the Day

"There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week."

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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