Day 7/67 Quotes on a bicycle

Some quotations from Nelson Mandela that resonated while on the bicycle:

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

I have always believed that exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind. - Long Walk to Freedom 

Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation. - National Men`s March, 1997 

And on the step machine I found these from a website of quotes on Volunteerism

Someone asked the anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-1978), "What is the first sign you look for, to tell you of an ancient civilization?" The interviewer had in mind a tool or article of clothing. Ms. Mead surprised him by answering, a "healed femur". When someone breaks a femur, they can't survive to hunt, fish or escape enemies unless they have help from someone else. Thus, a healed femur indicates that someone else helped that person, rather than abandoning them and saving themselves. 

That seems so fitting in relation to the work of St Joseph's. It is still a mark of civilization to care for the sick, the weak and the injured. 

Back on the bicycle

"Deeds of loving-kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments."-Jerusalem Talmud, Pe'ah 1:1
"The heart's intention is the measure of all things."-Maimonides, Letter to Hasda HaLevi, 12th Century

And from the Masaii tribe

"I believe in the spirit of sharing and I believe we are what we are because of those around us."
"I am what I am because of other people and they are what they are because of me being around."
"One hand cannot clap on its own but it needs the other hand to make a clap." 

Desmond Tutu, in his book No Future Without Forgiveness

"Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is  inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'" 

New Zealand Maori Proverb

Ko taku rourouKo tau rou rouKa ora te tangata
With my resourcesAnd your resourcesEveryone will benefit

and finally from the actress Lily Tomlin

I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.