Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, or good middle of the night to all Quote of the Week Members. Today's quote is a small story about a big heart.
Inscribed on five of the six pillars outside the Holocaust Museum at Quincy Market in Boston are stories that speak of the cruelty and suffering of the camps. The sixth pillar presents a tale of a different sort, about a little girl named Ilse, a childhood friend of Guerda Weissman Kline, in Auschwitz. Guerda remembers that Ilse, who was about six years-old at the time, found a single raspberry one morning somewhere in the camp. She carried it with her all day long in a protected place in her pocket. That evening, with her eyes shining with happiness, she placed the raspberry on a leaf and gave it to Guerda as a gift.
It was the defining moment of Guerda's life. She said, "Imagine a world in which your entire possession is one raspberry, and you give it to your friend."
It was the defining moment of Guerda's life. She said, "Imagine a world in which your entire possession is one raspberry, and you give it to your friend."
Rosamund and Benjamin Zander, The Art of the Possibility
A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
- "The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Wishing you a most BEAUTIFUL DAY, wherever this may find you!
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