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Quote of the Week

"Anthropological and sociological research on the nature of hope shows again and again that hope cannot be reduced to either action or non-action. It is neither active nor passive. In confronting uncertainty, hope demands that we at least temporarily give up our constant quest for information, knowledge and certainty. It then gives us a moment of rest that our mind desperately needs for further thought and action." - Hirokazu Miyazaki, Cornell University professor of anthropology

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It's easier to extend yourself to others when you are nourished and feeling well, so be sure to tend to the health of your own body and mind.

Activities like these can help you keep things in perspective and balance when life gets rough. The Gannett website offers additional guidance for the practice of stress management at Cornell.

Quotes of the Week

Week of March 21, 2011
"Anthropological and sociological research on the nature of hope shows again and again that hope cannot be reduced to either action or non-action. It is neither active nor passive. In confronting uncertainty, hope demands that we at least temporarily give up our constant quest for information, knowledge and certainty. It then gives us a moment of rest that our mind desperately needs for further thought and action." - Hirokazu Miyazaki, Cornell University professor of anthropology

Week of February 21, 2011
"For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again." - Paula Cole

Week of January 17, 2011
"When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free." - Catherine Ponder

Week of December 13, 2010
"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus

Week of November 15, 2010
"The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, 'What are you going through?'" - Simone Weil

Week of November 8, 2010
"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world."

Week of October 25, 2010
"No person was ever honored for what he received. He was honored for what he gave." - Calvin Coolidge

Week of October 11, 2010
"In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November." - Rose G. Kingsley, The Autumn Garden, 1905

Week of October 4, 2010
"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." - Kahlil Gibran

Week of September 20, 2010
"Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose." - Tom Krause

Week of August 23, 2010
"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives." - Clay P. Bedford

Week of July 12, 2010
"A compassionate attitude opens our inner door, and as a result it is much easier to communicate with others." - Dalai Lama

Week of June 21, 2010
"You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination." - Ralph Marston

Week of June 7, 2010
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." - Albert Einstein

Week of May 17, 2010
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's learning to dance in the rain." - Vivian Greene

Week of May 10, 2010
"Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh

Week of May 3, 2010
"Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln

Week of April 19, 2010
"A key to a vital life is an eagerness to learn and a willingness to change." - Mary Anne Radmacher

Week of April 12, 2010
"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty." - Maya Angelou

Week of April 5, 2010
"It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely." - Leo F. Buscaglia

Week of March 29, 2010
"We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Week of March 22, 2010
"The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." - Thich Nhat Hanh

Week of March 15, 2010
"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises." - Leo F. Buscaglia

Week of March 8, 2010
"Try to see the light. If it is difficult, then try to feel its warmth." - Maysoun Saadi

Week of March 1, 2010
"This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others." - Elie Wiesel

Week of February 22, 2010
"Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another." - Erma Bombeck

Week of February 15, 2010
"You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes." - Winnie the Pooh

Week of February 8, 2010
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all you heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." - Dale Carnegie

Week of February 1, 2010
"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Week of January 25, 2010
"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." - Confucius

Week of January 18, 2010
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead, anthropologist

Week of January 11, 2010
"There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear." - Frank Tyger

Week of January 4, 2010
"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things." - John Burroughs