"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others"

The quote above and the quote below have both been hanging on the back of the door in my room since I arrived here in Rwanda last year. I guess they were left from the last girl who lived in my room...but I love the words and often reflect on its powerful message. I recently attempted to convey a similiar message about how my time in Rwanda has affected me (see blog post on August 8, 2010), but I can't quite articulate the thought like GK Chesterton.

"What we need is not the old acceptance of the world as a compromise, but some way in which we can heartily hate and heartily love it. We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce surly contentment. We want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to see the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return at evening" GK Chesterton