Some nice quotations.
Maryann Leckron, the Volunteer Coordinator here at Carroll Lutheran Village recently hosted a volunteer appreciation luncheon. I was pleased to attend and receive a Presidential Award.
On the program for the function was contained some nice quotations as follows:
Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia:
"Too often we under-estimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
(Professor Leo Buscaglia was an expert on LOVE. His lectures were attended by all kinds of people yearning to put LOVE into their lives. I taped some of his lectures and each time I see and hear them I learn something that moves me. Now that I have plugged into YOUTUBE, I should be able to see some of his lectures that I may have missed. I am looking forward to that. It is indeed unfortunate that Leo died very young. The world would be a much better place if he were still here with us lecturing, especially during the recent Presidential campaign.)
Calvin Coolidge:
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor is given by what he gave."
(Perhaps this is why Dylan does not want to be honored by the Nobel judges.)
(I think I have this right: Someone once said to the notoriously taciturn Coolidge that he had bet a friend that he could make him say more than two words. Coolidge's reply was: "You lose.")
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Abraham Lincoln:
"To ease another's heartbreak is to forget one's own."
(I doubt that anyone had more heartbreak than President Lincoln.)
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Thomas Jefferson:
"May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion,."
(I was surprised to read some historian's recent entry on Facebook that Jefferson wanted to marry Sally Hemmings, his slave mistress, but was thwarted by the conventions of the time. Comments on this entry poo pooed that. Who knows?)
(Could Jefferson have become our first Mensa member? Visit his Montecello home and look around at all the inventive features that sprang from Tom's creative
Eleanor Roosevelt:
"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."
(Then, what is this thing called: delegation? Would President Elect Trump be willing to do any of the thousands of jobs for which he will be compelled to assign to "underlings." Well, you get my point., and I do understand what Eleanor was getting at.)
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Robert F. Kennedy:
"Some people see things as they are and say 'why'. I look at things that never were and say 'why not.'"
(I'm in a quandary about Mr. Kennedy. I'm reading a book about the so-called "suicide" of Marilyn Monroe, and a possible cover-up deal between him and J. Edgar Hoover. Interesting.)
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Ronald Reagan:
"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."
(Yeah, even the Sandonistas.)
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I'm sure that you can detect a slight bit of skepticism by me at some of the words that a couple of these folks said, but they are good words, even if they have to be separated from the persons who spoke them, and Maryann is to be congratulated for giving us these words to think about.
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