Famous Quotations Small Group Menu
Famous Quotations Reflection and Prompts for Small Groups or Personal Reflection
Mary Oliver Quotation
For Storytelling
“I know, you never intended to be in this world.
But you’re in it all the same. So why not get started immediately..."
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Wendell Berry Quotation
For Storytelling
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.” Wendell Berry
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Thomas Merton Quotation
For Storytelling
"Thomas Merton’s Prayer
“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of
me. I cannot know for certain where it will end..."
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Maya Angelou Quotation
For Storytelling
"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty." Maya Angelou
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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotation
For Storytelling
“Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you..." Rainer Maria Rilke
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Dr. Seuss Quotation
For Storytelling
“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.” Dr. Suess
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Henry David Thoreau Quotation
For Storytelling
““It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” Henry David Thoreau
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Rumi Quotation
For Storytelling
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
Rumi
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Parker Palmer Quotation on Solitude
For Storytelling
“Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one’s self. It is not about the absence of other people – it is about being fully present to ourselves, whether or not we are with others.” Parker Palmer
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Wendell Berry Quotation
For Storytelling
“When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds...” Wendell Berry
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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotation
For Storytelling
““The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” Eleanor Roosevelt
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Martin Luther King Jr. Quotation
For Storytelling
““Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Mother Teresa Quotation
For Storytelling
““Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” Mother Teresa
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Eckhart Tolle Quotation
For Storytelling
“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.” Eckhart Tolle
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David Whyte Quotation
For Storytelling
"…Sometimes…
…. I look out at everything
growing so wild
and faithfully beneath
the sky
and wonder..."
David Whyte
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Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr
For Storytelling
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” Reinhold Niebuhr
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Joseph Campbell Quotation
For Storytelling
“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.” Joseph Campbell
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Mark Twain Quotation
For Storytelling
““I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
Mark Twain
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