Hospitality Quotes - Page 5

• Dreams are guests who ensoul our lives if we have hospitality for them.

  Jeannine Parvati Baker

  Dream, Guests, Our Lives

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• Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear

  Edgar Guest

  Leadership, Confusing, Example

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Sermons We See”

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• Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.

  Miroslav Volf

  Way, Violence, Absence

  Miroslav Volf (2011). “A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good”, p.47, Brazos Press

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• The brain is wider than the sky.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Learning, Sky

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.

  Patrick Henry

  Prayer, Tables, Exam

  Patrick Henry (2000). “The Ironic Christian's Companion: Finding the Marks of God's Grace in the World”, p.89, Penguin

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• Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Inspirational, Leadership, Communication

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• These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the qualities of an ideal diplomacy. But, the reader may object, you have forgotten intelligence, knowledge, discernment, prudence, hospitality, charm, industry, courage and even tact. I have not forgotten them. I have taken them for granted.

  Harold Nicolson

  Loyalty, Taken, Quality

  "Diplomacy". Book by Harold George Nicolson, chapter 3, p. 126, 1939.

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• We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.

  Joseph Joubert

  Heart, May, Rooms

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• Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Stories

  Eugene H. Peterson (2008). “Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology”, p.22, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Needs

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.14, University of Georgia Press

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• We need to bring learning to people instead of people to learning

  Elliott Masie

  Inspirational, Learning, People

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• Hospitality is the practice of God's welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God's actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis.

  Letty M. Russell

  Healing, Our World, Practice

  Letty M. Russell (2009). “Just Hospitality: God's Welcome in a World of Difference”, p.19, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Sometimes you have an idea that is so simple that you can't see how it can fail. But in learning, being right is not always the quickest way to success

  Donald Clark

  Inspirational, Learning, Simple

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• Hospitality has never been about having House Beautiful with perfectly coordinated accessories and the most up-to-date equipment, nor is it dependent upon having large chunks of leisure time and a big entertainment budget to spend, nor does it require special training in the culinary arts or event planning. Hospitality is about a heart for service, the creativity to stretch whatever we do have available, and the energy to give the time necessary to add a flourish to the ordinary events of life.

  Dorothy Kelley Patterson

  Beautiful, Art, Creativity

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• The care leadership strategy is simple: be a model. Commit yourself to your own personal mastery. Talking about personal mastery may open people's minds somewhat, but actions always speak louder than words. There is nothing more powerful you can do to encourage others in their quest for personal mastery than to be serious in your own quest.

  Peter Senge

  Leadership, Powerful, Simple

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• Hospitality is the key to new ideas, new friends, new possibilities. What we take into our lives changes us. Without new people and new ideas, we are imprisoned inside ourselves.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Life Changing, Keys, Ideas

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• Hospitality is simply love on the loose.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Simply Love

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• Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is improved by the multiples of those with whom it is shared.

  Jesse Browner

  Meals, Eating, Communion

  Jesse Browner (2004). “The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

  Martin Short

  Palaces, Royal, Hotel

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• If you look into the mirror, you see that [every part of you] belongs there and you belong there, as you are.  You begin to realize that you have a perfect right to be in this universe, to be this way, and you see that there is a basic hospitality that this world provides to you.  You have looked and you have seen, and you don't have to apologize for being born on this earth.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Mirrors, Perfect, Looks

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• Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

  Agnes Repplier

  Guests, Leisure, Delight

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Thank You, Sweet, Done

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran,-- But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Stars, Men, Self

  "The House by the Side of the Road" l. 7 (1898)

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• Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

  Erma Bombeck

  Book, Getting High, Clubs

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• Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.

  Minnie Pearl

  Redneck, Incredibles, Heavy

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