Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“Just by practising gratitude, we can find happiness. We must be grateful to our ancestors, our parents, our teachers, our friends, the earth, the sky, the trees, the grass, the animals, the soil, the stones. Looking at the sunlight or at the forest, we feel gratitude. Looking at our breakfast, we feel gratitude. When weContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 4th June”

“All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice… We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.” Josephine Baker (1906 –Continue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 3rd June”

“We breathe the common wind of the earthno matter where we live, who we love,what language we speak. We drink the common water of the earthno matter the colour of our skin, how long we live,the coverings we drape on our forms. We follow the common paths of the earthno matter our beliefs, how farContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 2nd June”

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” MarilynContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 1st June”

“Why! who makes much of a miracle?As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles,Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,Or wade with naked feet along the beach, just in the edge of the water,Or stand under trees in the woods,Or talk byContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 31st May”

“In a village there was a beautiful statue of a Mahatma (great sage) with outstretched arms. On a plaque beneath the statue, these words were inscribed, “Come into my arms.”Over the years, the arms broke off. The villagers loved the statue and were very upset. They gathered together to try to decide what to do.Continue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 30th May”

She Told Me the Earth Loves Us by Anne Haven McDonnell “She said it softly, without a needfor conviction or romance.After everything? I asked, ashamed. That’s not the kind of love she meant.She walked through a field of graybeetle-bored pine, snags branching like polished bone. I forget sometimeshow trees look at me with the generosityofContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 29th May”

“One of our most important tasks as Unitarians is to convince others that there is nothing to fear in difference; that difference, in fact, is one of the most healthy and invigorating human characteristics, without which life would become meaningless. Here lies the power of the liberal way: not in making the whole world Unitarian,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 28th May”

“Do not measure in terms of time: one year or ten years means nothing. For the artist there is no counting or tallying up; just ripening like the tree that does not force its sap and endures the storms of spring without fearing that summer will not come. But it will come. It comes, however,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 27th May”

“O God please grant meenough anger to tackle wrongdoingenough pride in family, friends and communityenough deceit to pay attention to the tender feelings of othersenough envy to admire people’s good deedsenough avarice to hoard the world’s resourcesenough fear to avoid dangerous livingenough gluttony to savour every flavourenough lust to live life to the fullenough slothContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 26th May”