Moon Rock & Perspective

"Whenever arguments [...] heated up beyond reason, I would interrupt and say, 'You see that rock? It's 3.6 billion years old (moon rock). We're all just passing through. Let's calm down and go back to work'. That moon rock gave me a whole different perspective on history and the proverbial 'long run'. Our job is to live as well and as long as we can, and to help others to do the same. [...] All we have is the moment." (Bill Clinton's My Life, 2002)

Sausages

Bill Clinton quoted in his book My Life: "Someone once said that the two things people should never watch being made are sausages and laws. It was ugly and uncertain." (535)

A Good Man's Life

"According to Wordsworth, the best portion of a good man's life is his little, unremembered acts of kindness and love." (Bill Clinton, My Life, 2002)

Mother Teresa & Confidence

"Mother Teresa's famous observation that she knew God would never giver her a heavier burden than she could carry, but sometimes she wished He didn't have so much confidence in her." (Bill Clinton, My Life, 2002)

Advocating Social Justice

Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, restlessly advocating social justice, said: "A dying person does not have time for the peripheral or the accidental ...it is wrong to waste the precious gift of time given to us on acrimony and division." (from Clinton's book My Life, 2004)

Eleanor Roosevelt said

..that no one can make you feel inferior without your permission: Don't give them permission." (from Clinton's My Life, 2004.) (Picture: Time)

2. Advent Quote

"....from the Eleventh chapter of Hebrews. It begins, 'Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." (from Clinton's My Life, page 878)

Quotation from Bill Clinton's "My Life"

"[...] there are things in life we cannot control and mysteries we cannot understand; that I wanted them to take more care with themselves, their friends, and their families; and that we could not "deaden our sensitivities by working too hard". That last bit of advice had been always easier for me to give than to take." (p 532)

Bill Clinton after the suicide death of Vince Foster, a life-long friend of the Clinton's, lawyer and later member of the White House Office Council.

Quotation from "My Life" by Bill Clinton (2004)

"My mother has raised me to look for the good in everybody."

Quotation from "My Life" by Bill Clinton (2004)

"And to the memory of my grandfather, who taught me to look up to people others look down on, because we are not so different after all." (Intro-note)
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