This is the announcement for my graduation that my wonderful sister Louise made. I was really impressed. In making the announcement my mother wanted to have a nice quote of some kind on the invitation. She sent some suggestions and had me look for others. I really struggled with this. I felt as if any quote on my announcement was suppose to summarize my education experience so far. What a difficult task, to sum up four years of my life into a few simple words. Anyway, we ended up not using a quote due to lack of space on the card. But I didn't want all my searching to go to waste so I thought it'd be fun to share the few that I found. They might come in handy to someone else.
These are the three my mother sent me:
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan
To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth. - Anonymous
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success. - Orison Swett Marden
And these are the ones I found myself:
"Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them" - Annie Dillard
"There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go, if there are no doors or windows, he must walk through a wall." - Bernard Malamud
"The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart." - Annie Dillard
"You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." - Annie Dillard
"This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it." - Marilynne Robinson
"There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient" - Marilynne Robinson
"The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know." - Sherman Alexie
"If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong." - Sherman Alexie
"Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days." - Flannery O'Connor
"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough." - Toni Morrison
And these two are jokes:
"I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally." - Marilynne Robinson
"Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?" - Annie Dillard
These are the three my mother sent me:
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan
To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth. - Anonymous
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success. - Orison Swett Marden
And these are the ones I found myself:
"Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them" - Annie Dillard
"There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go, if there are no doors or windows, he must walk through a wall." - Bernard Malamud
"The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart." - Annie Dillard
"You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." - Annie Dillard
"This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it." - Marilynne Robinson
"There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient" - Marilynne Robinson
"The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know." - Sherman Alexie
"If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong." - Sherman Alexie
"Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days." - Flannery O'Connor
"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough." - Toni Morrison
And these two are jokes:
"I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally." - Marilynne Robinson
"Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?" - Annie Dillard
