Quotes about Reflection

While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn't be doing anything meaningful.

Be grateful for what you already have. Set aside the time to take care of yourself, too.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

I think sometimes when things are taken away, then you don't realize how much fun it is to come out here and play this game. You can't play it forever, so I'm going to enjoy it.

I just say 'Amen' a lot. It's just about being grateful and never taking things for granted.

A simple way to address hidden curriculum issues is to spend time talking with staff and key leaders about their spiritual lives.

I'm not good at talking about myself.

Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.

There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven't time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else's story, we come to understand our own.

As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.