¿dónde está lucille?: January 2011

1.24.2011

Halfway There!

Total donations so far from family and friends in my community and around the world is 2000 dollars! Thank you all so much for your support! I hope I can pass on the kindness you have extended to los bebes preciosos de Ecuador. :)

There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. ~Mother Teresa

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~Kahlil Gibran

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." — Mark Twain

Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~William James

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. ~Mother Teresa

This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ~George Bernard Shaw

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. ~Italian Proverb

Action is the antidote to despair. ~Joan Baez

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. ~Calvin Coolidge

Children make you want to start life over. ~Muhammad Ali

Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it. ~Not Your Average Dictionary

If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded. ~Robert Brault

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. ~Walt Streightiff

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.