Joan Walsh Anglund Quotes & Sayings

Life is in the living. Love is in the giving. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ... with wordless variety ... She spells the name of Love. — Joan Walsh Anglund

We dwell in shadow or in sunlight ... according to our belief. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Where is the yesterday that worried us so. — Joan Walsh Anglund

A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit quietly beside it when you don't feel like speaking. — Joan Walsh Anglund

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Friendship is like a rose ... opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds ... day by day it reveals its true beauty. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Adversity often activates a strength we did not know we had. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Peace is the harvest of love as war is the fruit of hate. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it. — Joan Walsh Anglund

A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Faith is the staff that will support you over the rockiest terrain. — Joan Walsh Anglund

A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Love comes quietly ... / but you know when it is there ... — Joan Walsh Anglund

In the history of this country [USA], the reason we have never developed a social democratic base, the way they have in Europe - we're the only Western country without some kind of universal health care. There's a reason, and it is because corporate interests have divided the American people by race and ethnicity, the Irish from the blacks, the Germans from the German Jews. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Your strength lies in your Hope. Your salvation lies in your Faith. — Joan Walsh Anglund

The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college. — Joan Walsh Anglund

I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Words have consequences, and I judge people not only by their words but what they do. And if you look at people who have a pattern, who've built a career out of dividing people and who built a career out of often not just Obama but finding ways to degrade and diminish African-Americans and African-American leaders. It's racist to consistently make your living on the backs of black people. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Do not be sad that you have suffered, be glad that you have lived. — Joan Walsh Anglund

A bird doesn't sing because he has an answer-he sings because he has a song. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Color is something we see with our eyes, but love is something we see with our heart. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels. — Joan Walsh Anglund

The best way to help yourself is to help someone else. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Between loving friends there need be no secrets ... the trusting heart is always safe with another who truly cares. — Joan Walsh Anglund