Thoughtful greetings to our alumni
Continuing a new “tradition” begun last year, ELI teachers and tutors share some “food for thought” for ELI graduates to digest in the new year. Sources are listed where known.
Anne Owen: anneoowen@aol.com
With every true friendship
we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole word
rests. Thought by thought, and act by act, with every breath we build the
kingdom of nonviolence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.
~M. K. Gandhi
Barbara Gillette: gillette@udel.edu
There is no way to happiness.
Happiness is the way. There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. ~Thich
Naht Hanh
Barbara Morris: bmorris@udel.edu
Stay hungry. Stay foolish. ~
Steve
Jobs
Caroline Mallay
When you walk up to a door, knock!
Whether it’s an opportunity to study English in America or a chance to better
your career, make the decision to do it, and then give it your heart.
David Robertson: davidr41@hotmail.com
Language is not only necessary to make existence possible
in the outer world; it is essential for building bridges between one inner
world and another.
Gloria Cousins: gloria1017@comcast.net
Never give up!
Persevere!
You are worth it!
Grant Wolf: gwolf19@yahoo.com and Debra
Darrell: debradarrell@yahoo.com
When a thought of war comes, oppose it with a stronger thought of peace.
A thought of hatred must be
destroyed by a more powerful thought
of love.
~ Abdu’l-Baha
Jaimy Gillow: jaimy.gillow@gmail.com
Your chances of success go
up when you try!
Janet Louise: louise_janet@hotmail.com
The power of
the word is real whether or not you are conscious of it. Your own words
are the bricks
and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Behind every word flows
energy. ~Sonia Choquette
Jo Gielow: gielowj@christina.k12.de.us
Do not
follow where the
path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~Muriel Strode
June Quigley: junrq@netzero.net
To all my former students:
always
remember that
life is an adventure, and you are on it! Always keep your dream in
front of you, and success will come.
Kathy Hankins: khan@udel.edu
Embrace
this
life while it
is dripping, while the flavors are excellently wholesome. Take your
bites with bravery and boldness since the learning and the growing are
here in
these times.
Capture these times. ~ Jill Scott, musician
Ken Cranker: kjcranker@yahoo.com
The more you put into something, the more you get out of it.
Ken
Hyde: kenny@udel.edu
Go placidly among the noise and haste and remember
what peace there may be in
silence….With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful
world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. ~Max Ehrmann, Desiderata
Lee Horzempa
When a mountain is in your path, do not sit at its foot and cry.
Get up and climb it. ~African proverb
Lisa Grimsley: grimsley@udel.edu
Do
what you love and love
what you do.
Lowell Riethmuller: lowell@udel.edu
Wisdom is not
a product of teaching but the lifelong attempt to acquire it. ~Albert Einstein
Mary BethWorrilow: worrilow@udel.edu
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind
word, a listening ear or the smallest act of caring, all of which have
the potential to turn a
life around. ~ Leo Buscaglia.
Mary Long: mblong@udel.edu
There
is only one definition of success -- to be able to spend your life in your
own way.
Nonie Bell: nbelleli@comcast.net
Do what you can, with what you
have, where you are. ~President Theodore Roosevelt
Russ Mason: rmason@udel.edu
Only one who is willing to give his
body for the sake of the world is fit to be entrusted with the world. Only
he who can do it
with love is worthy of being the steward of the world. ~ Lao
Tzu, Tao Teh Ching #13
Ruth Bailis: rabo@comcast.net
When you part from
your friend, grieve not;
for that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence
as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. ~ Kahlil Gibran,
The Prophet
Sarah
Petersen: ssp@udel.edu
For in the dew of little things the heart
finds its morning and is refreshed. ~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Susan
Coakley: scoakley@udel.edu
The only way to have a friend is to be one. ~RalphWaldo Emerson
Walt Babich: wcbabich@udel.edu Oh our Delaware! Our beloved Delaware! Here’s the loyal son that pledges faith to good old Delaware. ~ George B. Hynson Delaware state song
Wendy Bulkowski: delwindo@yahoo.com
Life is not
a collection of facts. Life is a collection of stories.