Stephen G. Post quotes

We can be anywhere, so long as we are helping others and caring for them. This is probably the one source of stability in our lives that we can truly depend on, and so in the end we are never really out of place.
-- Stephen G. Post

#Caring #Helping Others #Long

Humor is the fastest, fleetest way of giving -it can change pain to joy in a mere millisecond.
-- Stephen G. Post

#Pain #Giving #Joy

If you find yourself ruminating over a hurt and are not ready to forgive, shift to gratitude. Think about all that is good in your life and all that you appreciate.
-- Stephen G. Post

#Gratitude #Hurt #Thinking

Influence others positively by being a teacher, coach, counselor, or mentor.
-- Stephen G. Post

#Teacher #Mentor #Influence

Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.
-- Stephen G. Post

#People #Important #Unselfish Love

Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area. And bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.

I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring. ~Shin

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.

There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails.

Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

How long does getting thin take?

People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is not however clear why people should require their personal beliefs to be treated with special sensitivity by others, to the point that if others fail to tip-toe respectfully around them they will start throwing bombs.

It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.