Favorite Quotes

Favorite Quotes

FAVORITE QUOTES

"Live as if you were going to die tomorrow; learn as if you were going to live forever." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Life is a banquet - and most poor suckers are starving to death." Rosalyn Russell as Auntie Mame
"A bubbling brook will lose it's song if you remove the rocks." --unknown
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit still." -- Will Rogers
"Wisdom is divided into two parts; having a great deal to say, and not saying it." -- unknown
"Always do right. That will gratify some people and astonish the rest." -- Mark Twain
"We cannot change the wind, but we can adjust the sails." -- German proverb
"Preserve your integrity - it is more precious than diamonds or rubies -- P.T. Barnum
"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can." -- Danny Kaye
"In a world where you can be anything, be yourself." -- unknown
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart" -- Helen Keller
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about dancing in the rain." -- unknown
"The drumbeat in your blood is the voice of your ancestors. Let the drum speak"
-- from Let the Drum Speak, a book by Linda L. Shuler
"To succeed in life you need three things; a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone'." -- Reba McIntire

Monday, May 10, 2021

Borrow A Person

I saw a little blurb online about libraries in Denmark, where you can “borrow” a person instead of a book; to listen to their life story for 30 minutes. The goal is to fight prejudice. Listening to their story you realize how much you shouldn’t “judge a book by its cover”. It is an innovative and brilliant, active project that exists in fifty countries; an initiative from The Human Library.

This is genius!!  WHY do we not do this in the US???  We have a pretty diverse community here; it would be a perfect place for people to begin to learn about other ethnicities and cultures as well. Maybe I’ll put a bug in the ear of someone at our local library, to see if this is something they would be willing to do.

 

 

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