Selah Place

We must become the change we want to see.

Mahatma Ghandi

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition there.

Indira Ghandi

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

Geri Weitzman

Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George

I awake this morning to news of shots being fired out in Burma against the demonstrators against the military regime.

In the words of U2’s song “Walk On”:

Oh, oh
Walk on, walk on
What you got, they can’t steal it
No, they can’t even feel it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight

Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Burma, including the monks and Aung San Suu Kyi.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Opportunity often goes unrecognized because it wears overalls and often looks like work.

Anon

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Simone de Beauvoir

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .

John Donne