Laetare Medal Winners Quotes & Sayings

The rain of matter upon sense
Destroys me momently. The score:
There comes what will come. — Yvor Winters

They have most likely said it because they have an unmet need. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them. — Junius

As we seek God, it's best not to focus on asking about the future. It's not about picking and choosing which pieces of information we think God should give us. Rather, we listen for what He wants to tell us, and then gratefully accept whatever that happens to be. — Susan Rohrer

Don't accept the world as it is.
Dream of what the world could be -
and then help make it happen. — Peter Tatchell

Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married. — Helen Rowland

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents. — Atticus Shaffer

A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles, I am now about to mix the two together. According to the above, they will explode in my face. Here goes ...
Well ... I'm still here! I poured the hydrogen peroxide into the hydroquinone, and absolutely nothing happened. It didn't event get warm! — Richard Dawkins

What will support any relationship is clear, complete and conscious conversations when upsets or breakdowns occur. — Iyanla Vanzant

People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned. — Sara Sheridan

Sometimes you have to fight for what you want,' Chip said, his expression set. 'Sometimes the fight is all you get. — Margaret Peterson Haddix

This was the tenth month of my "fellowship" in oncology - a two-year immersive medical program to train cancer specialists - and I felt as if I had gravitated to my lowest point. In those ten indescribably poignant and difficult months, dozens of patients in my care had died. I felt as if I was slowly becoming inured to the deaths and the desolation - vaccinated against the constant emotional brunt. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Preparation is the key to your success. You cannot dismiss the process and expect to be truly successful. — Linda Gibson

Maybe this is as near as we can come to forgiveness. Not the past wiped away, nothing undone, but some willingness in the present, some recognition and embrace and slowing down. — David Vann

You know what the really scary thing about bad dreams? It's that something's going on in your head, and you can't control it. I mean, It's like there's these bad worlds inside you. But it's just you ... it's like you're betraying yourself. — Neil Gaiman