Roubour Quotes & Sayings

If we are at all sensitive to the life around us, to one another's pains and joys,
to the beauty and fragility of the Earth, it is all about being broken open, allowing ourselves to
step out from out hardened veneers and expose our core, allowing ourselves to be vulnerable in our emotional response to the world. And how can we not respond? This is what I mean by being 'broken open.' To engage. To love. Any one of these actions of the heart will lead to a personal transformation that bears collective gifts. — Terry Tempest Williams

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense. — Arne Duncan

Nothing creates a bond between people in Africa more quickly than shaed laughter. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

Those who have been made great have first suffered. — Myrtle Reed

I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles. — Ralph Steadman

Dear God, thank you for warm summer nights and candlelight and good food. But thank you most of all for friends. We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us. We pray in Christ's name, Amen. — Kate DiCamillo