TCODS - Tillamook County Outdoor School
Moses' Collection of Quotations
Love
Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back. Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart. But if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours.
I love you little,
I love you lots, My love for you would fill
10 pots,
13 kettles,
14 pans, 3 teacups,
and 6 dishpans!
"If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow." Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"In Campus Life a young nurse tells of a patient called Eileen. A cerebral aneurysm had left her with no conscious control over her body. The doctors thought she was totally unconscious, unable to feel pain, unaware of anything going on around her. It was the hospital staff's job to turn her every hour to prevent bedsores and to feed her twice a day through a stomach tube. 'When it's this bad,' an older nurse told her, 'You have to detach yourself emotionally.' As a result Eileen cme to be treated as a thing, a vegetable. But the young student nurse decided to treat her differently. She talked to Eileen, sang to her, and even brought her little gifts. One Thanksgiving Day she said to Eileen, 'It was supposed to be my day off, but I couldn't miss seeing you on Thanksgiving. Just then the telephone rang. As the nurse turned to answer it she looked quickly back at the patient. 'Eileen was looking at me . . . crying. Big damp circles stained her pillow.' That was the only human emotion Eileen ever showed. But is was enough to change the attitude of the entire hospital staff toward her. Not long afterward Eileen died. The young nurse closes her story by saying, 'I keep think about her . . . I owe her an awful lot. Except for Eitleen I might never have known what it's like to give myself to someone who can't give back.' (Taken from On the Right Note, September 23, 2007)
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." James Arthur Baldwin (Shared by Woodstock in 2001 & Supergirl in 2008)
Most of the time people don't need our wise analysis or brilliant answers, they just need our love - and support - and they'll find their own answers.
"Of course, you haven't got to decide, but think about it. I can't advise you in my favour because I think it would be beastly for you, but think how nice it would be for me!" Evelyn Waugh proposing to Laura Herbert, 1936
One way that many of us sense we're loved is when someone talks with us and listens to us.
When someone loves you the way they say your name is different. Your name is safe in their mouth.