Daybook, My Quotes, Quotes, Devotional Bits, "Good 'uns," Beloved Bible Passages

I really, really, really will get these organized someday!!

Acknowledgements I've been on a decades-long quest of culling through all the quotes I come across every day and assembling a list of those that speak some particularly effective word of wisdom,encouragement, rebuke, warning — some bon mot, or (especially) humorous observation.      I've collected these from whatever source I could find, but acknowledge the important contribution of a few particular resources: Quote Mountain Quotes of the Day Good Dog

Wise, Wonderful, and Witty Quotes

Life isn't happening to you; life is responding to you. (Anonymous)

The first to help you up are usually the ones who know what it feels like to fall down. (Anonymous)

Change your focus, from making money to serving more people. Serving more people makes the money come in. (Robert Kiyosaki)

I think that if your dogma's getting in the way of the Golden Rule, which is to treat others as you would like to be treated.... I think that when you get to know more gay people and you're sitting in the presence of them and you realize that if there's anything wrong with me — and I have a lot of flaws — being gay isn't one of them. Jane Lynch)

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. (Voltaire)

One of the hardest things to do in life is to listen without intent to reply. (Anonymous)

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. (Marcus Aurelius)

Marriage as an institution is unaffected by gay marriage as an issue. My marriage is not defined by others, not by one state or a countries laws but by the vows I took before God and our relationship as husband and wife. I don't feel less married in South Africa because bigamy and homosexual marriages are recognized as I would in NC. (Rodney Griffen)

The richest people in the world look for and build networks. Everyone else looks for work. (Robert Kiyosaki)

Thanks to the teachers who instilled in me such a love of English that I'm perpetually mortified when reading the Internet. (Anonymous)

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to ... come back home. (Bill Cosby)

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand. (Michelangelo)

Gossip is the Devil's radio. George Harrison

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temple; the philosophy is kindness. (Rajendra Kumar)

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. (Helen Keller)

"Come to the edge."
"We can't. We're afraid."
"Come to the edge."
"We can't. We will fall."
And they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.
(Guillaume Apollinaire)

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is the thorn that irritates and hurts; it is the sword that kills. (Buddha)

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. (Thich Nhat Hanh)

Do one thing every day, that scares you. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Make a "career"" of living a happy life rather than trying to find work that will produce enough income that you can do things with your money that will then make you happy.

When feeling happy is of paramount importance to you — and what you do "for a living" makes you happy — you have found the best of all combinations.

If an egg is broken by outside force, life ends. If broken by inside force, life begins. Great things alwys begin from the inside. (Rajesh Doke)

Of course the mind can rationalize fighting back...but the heart, the heart would never understand. Then you would be divided in yourself, the heart and the mind, and the war would be inside you. (Dalai Lama)

The Christian faith has no need of being defended; the Christian religion is, in many ways, indefensible. (Dr. Don Huntington)

The truth is that male religious leaders have had — and still have — an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter. Their continuing choice provides the foundation or justification for much of the pervasive persection and abuse of women throught the world. (Jimmy Carter)

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. (Kahlil Gibran)

If you are not willing to learn no one can help you. If you are determined to learn no one can stop you. (Anonymous)

It ain't braggin' if ya can back it up. (Dizzy Dean)

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. (Sir Winston Churchill)

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. (Thomas Jefferson)

It is not happy people who are thankful; it is thankful people who are happy. (Anonymous)

Every time you mistreat a woman you give up the right to be treated like a man. (Anonymous)

Rudeness is the weak person's imitation of strength. (Anonymous)

Here's all you have to know about man and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. (George Carlin)

Someday everything will make perfect sense. So, for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason. (Anonymous)

Sometimes when things are falling apart they are actually falling into place. (Anonymous)

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory, let us now commit it to life. (Edwin Markahm)

Defensive minds are neither creative nor cooperative. (Stephen R. Covey)

Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart. (Jim Teresinski)

Lord, I beseech thee to grant me the strength necessary to carry out the tasks you have entrusted to me this day.

Life is too short to waste on grudges; laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change. (Mar Razalan)

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to accept what is true. (Soren Kierkegaard)

The creative adult is the child who survived. (Anonymous)

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon. (Albert Einstein)

If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be myself. (Albert Einstein)

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted? (Abraham Verghese)

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)

For the past two-and-a-half years, the debate ... has been gravely diminished by the petulance, Nihilism, and vacuum of leadership on one side of the partisan aisle — set against which Obama's very real flaws are trivial by comparison. (New York Magazine)

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. (Henry David Thoreau)

No one of intelligence resents the inevitable. (Arthur C Clarke)

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you. And the storms their energy. While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. (John Muir)

All that the human experience is about is the journey towards wholeness! (J.Stone)

Every object — and every life — is beautified by an awareness of boundaries. it is not because a hiku is shorter than a novel that it is inferior. Mortality is no butcher. He may, in fact, be an artist. (Cristina Nehring)

Going away is dying a little and dying is very simple. There is a saying among the desert people, 'Never wave goodbye to the caravan. You will follow it soon.' (Anonymous)

God respects me when I work, but he loves me when I sing. (Rabindranath Tagore)

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. (Dr. Wayne Dyer)

Don't just survive... That's not what you were made for. Instead, live each day with purpose and passion. (Anonymous)

Nothing is more discouraging than unappreciated sarcasm. (Anonymous)

There are three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see. (Leonardo da Vinci)

Being a good person does not depend on your religion status in life, race skin color, political views, or culture. It depends on how you treat others. (Anonymous)

The important thing is to not stop questioning. Cutiosity has its own reason for existing. (Albert Einstein)

We talk so much about leaving a better planet to our kids, that we forget about leaving better kids to this planet. Educate your children — say NO to them every once in a while. (Anonymous)

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching. (Anonymous)

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. (Anonymous)

Unless life also hands you water and sugar your lemonade is going to suck. (Anonymous)

Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care but because they don't. (Anonymous)

Did you know that
     "Dammit I'm Mad"
spelled backward is
     "Dammit I'm Mad"

Frank Sinatra was the ultimate optimist.... Whereas others saw the glass as half full, he would say, "Look, there's still some left on the bottom!" (Anonymous)

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or is background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. (Nelson Mandela)

We're not here to answer your questions; we're here to question your answers. (Unity tagline)

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle. (Albert Einstein)

It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something. (Albert Einstein)

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small. (Proverb)

We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. (George Bernard Shaw)

It is not how old you are, but how you are old. (Marie Dressler)

I ask you, Donald, as humbly as I can, to consider taking the path less traveled, going within, and getting quiet. Being yourself, shining your light, and reaching out to others.
     No, no, heavens no! Not what you're thinking!! I ask these things not that they might be an alternative to living high on the hog, in the fast lane, loaded down with embarrassing wealth... but as a means to attaining these things.
     Just striving to preserve our options.
     The Universe (TUT)

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born... and the day you find out why. (Mark Twain)

Leaders are twice born individuals who endure major events that lead to a sense of separateness, or perhaps estrangement from their environments. As a result, they turn inward in order to reemerge with a created rather than an inherited sense of identity. (Abraham Zaleznik)

It is critical that the American People and not just their financial institutions be represented at the negotiating table. (Elizabeth Warren)

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

You're never to old to become younger. (Mae West)

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. (Betty Reese)

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.

Wise men don't need to prove their point;
men who need to prove their point aren't wise. (Lao Tzu)

When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. The realm of Being, which had been obscured by the mind, then opens up. Suddenly, a great stillness arises within you, an unfathomable sense of peace. And within that peace, there is great joy. And within that joy, there is love. And at the innermost core, there is the sacred, the immeasurable. That which cannot be named. (Eckhart Tolle)

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score. (Bobby Hull)

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. (Dalai Lama)

The good person, if able to foresee the future, would peacefully and contentedly help to bring about their own sickness, maiming, and even death, knowing that this is the right order of the universe. (Epictetus)

The kidney consists of over 1 million little tubes, and the total length of the tubes in both kidneys runs to about 40 miles. (Anonymous)

The reason you want every single thing that you want, is because you think you will feel really good when you get there. But, if you don't feel really good on your way to there, you can't get there. You have to be satisfied with what-is while you're reaching for more. (Esther Hicks)

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention — something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself — the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead. (Ken Blanchard)

We are not proponents of long life. We are proponents of joyful life, and when you find yourself in joy, the longevity usually follows. Although we do not count the success of a life by its length; we count it by its joy. (Esther Hicks)

Some think life is not so much a place to seek personal happiness and fulfillment, Donald, but rather a place to learn lessons and pay dues.
And so it is for them.
Tallyho,
     The Universe (TUT)

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. (Anonymous)

When your heart is singing, you are allowing Well-being. When you are appreciating, you are allowing Well-being. When you are yelling at somebody, you're not. When you're feeling insecure, you're not. When you're frustrated, you're not. (Esther Hicks)

People see the world not as it is, but as they are. (Al Lee)

If wrinkles must be written upon your brow, let them not be written upon your heart.
      The spirit should not grow old. (James A. Garfield)

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever. (Alfred Tennyson)

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. (Thomas J. Peters)

I choose to love people, not to judge them. I want to experience them as they are, not as I would want them to be.... I don't want us to spend our lives thinking about love, and change, and celebration; rather, I want us to spend our lives celebrating, and living, and changing. (Dr. Leo Buscaglia)

People is all everything is. All it has ever been and all it can ever be. (William Soroyan)

I have ceased defining a "beautiful day" as a day when everything goes my way.... It's made a big difference in my life to began to define a "perfect day" as as a day in which, though some power of mine, I was able to make a day better for you. (Dr. Leo Buscaglia)

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself. ( Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

In most cases, people, even evil-doers, are much simpler and more naïve than we generally suppose.
      And the same is true of you and me. ( Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

A greater power than we can contradict
     Hath thwarted our intents. (Shakespeare)

History is a fascinating subject. It is only by consulting history that one would learn that in 1915, the host city for the International Purity Conference was.... San Francisco. (Rev. Austin Miles)

To have an authoritive effective voice, you must master two things in life. The thing you love and the thing you hate. (Rev. Austin Miles)

A lot of trouble will disappear if everyone learns to talk to each other instead of talking about each other. (Anonymous)

Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it. (Anonymous)

If we love life ... life will love us back! (Anonymous)

When you feel like you're drowning in life, don't worry — your lifegurard walks on the water. (Anonymous)

There is perhaps no more empowering belief, Donald, than understanding you're always in control of how you feel.
Similarly, understanding that just because you're not always skipping through tulips with joy doesn't mean that something's wrong with you. You rock!
     The Universe (TUT)

There is a difference between an honest admission of weakness and a self-focused feeling of inadequacy. (Tom Holliday)

I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science. (Wernher Von Braun)

‎Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe — a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive. (Albert Einstein)

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual...The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both. (Carl Sagan)

When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are. (Anonymous)

He did not study God; he was dazzled by him. (Victor Hugo)

No woman has ever shot a man while he was washing the dishes. (Anonymous)

When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you. (Anonymous)

How others see you is not important.... How you see yourself is everything. (Anonymous)

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. (Henry Ford)

It is hard to be a woman.
You must think like a man
Act like a lady
Look like a young girl
And work like a horse.

In life you'll meet two kinds of people. The ones who build you up and the ones ho tear you down. But in the end you'll thank them both. (Anonymous)

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions. (Anonymous)

Jesus gave us a new norm of greatness. If you want to be important — wonderful. If you want to be recognized — wonderful. If you want to be great — wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Cravings are going to occur to you. So here's the rule of thumb about eating, or about investing in the stock market, or about anything else: If the impulse comes from a joyous thought that feels good, follow it. If the impulse comes from an uncomfortable thought that felt bad, don't follow it. (Esther Hicks)

I wake up in the morning and go to bed at night, & in between, do what I want.... (Anonymous)

The happiest people in the world don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything. (Anonymous)

If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself.
If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself.
   Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation. (Lao Tzu)

When you are going through something hard and wonder where God is, remember that the teacher is always quiet during a test. (Anonymous)

Life's too short to walk around angry! So be happy and sing it out loud. (Anonymous)

I don't stop when I'm tired I stop when I'm done. (Anonymous)

The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. (Albert Einstein)

I'm not telling you it is going to be easy, I'm gelling you it's going to be worth it. (God Almighty)

I don't know how it happens, Sister but I meet with no body but myself, that's always in the right. (Quote by Benjamen Franklin to the Continental Congress)

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty , nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. (Henry David Thoreau)

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. (Archimedes

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. (James Thurber)

Never underestimate your ability to change yourself. Never overestimate your ability to change others. (Dr. Wayne Dyer)

"Love is kind."
Anything less isn't love at all. (Anonymous)

An old soul is not an old soul by virtue of age, Donald, but for their patience, self-measure, and happy tears for no apparent reason.
Hmmmmm,
     The Universe (TUT)

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing. (Isaac Newton)

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation (Isaac Newton)

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others? (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Never forget yesterday
But always live for today —
'Cause you never know what tomorrow can bring,
Or what it can take away (Anonymous)

Before you assume, learn the facts.
Before you judge, understand why.
Before you hurt someone, feel.
Before you speak, think. (Anonymous)

What if, Donald, from now on and forevermore, people stopped using the word "evil" and replaced it with "ignorance"?
Yeah, less fear, more better; global transformation.
Let's,
     The Universe (TUT)

(Final words) "Oh wow! Oh wow! Oh wow!" (Steve Jobs)

My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. (Warren Buffett)

No one connected to Source Energy would ever harm another. It's an interesting thing: More injustices, more discomfort, and more unhappiness is projected at others under the name of righteousness, under the name of law abiding, under the name of law, and under the name of religion, than all other things put together. In other words, don't worry about it. (Esther Hicks)

Faith is not about everything turning out OK; faith is about being OK no matter how things turn out! (Anonymous)

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning. (Vaclav Havel)

The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory. (Victor Frankl)

The miracles of nature do not seem miracles because they are so common. If no one had ever seen a flower, even a dandelion would be the most startling event in the world. (Anonymous)

A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth — that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. (Victor Frankl)

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save. They just stand there shining. (Anne Lamott)

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I gotten this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call something crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. (C.S. Lewis)

Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles. It empties today of its strength. (Mary Engelbrelt)

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. (Helen Keller)

You rock, and not in that Fraggle kind of way. You rock in the way that makes other's lives shimmer as though the sun has cut through a diamond and created a prism of color only found in Heaven. (Andrea Stuart)

These beings, that are acting out in those ways that you find so awful, are tormented and suffering in ways that you will not understand. Their horrible acts are extensions of that pain. (Esther Hicks)

My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call "education of the heart." Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness. (Dalai Lama)

Make fun of death. We are as dead as it gets, and we are fully aware of this joyous experience. We are with you every time you allow it. We are in every singing bird and in every joyful child. We are part of every delicious pulsing in your environment. We are not dead, and neither will you ever be! You will just get up, one day, and get out of the movie. (Esther Hicks)

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. (Mignon McLaughlin)

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done. (Vincent van Gogh)

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I have ended up where I needed to be. (Anonymous)

Don't judge me by my past. I don't live there anymore. (Anonymous)

Power brings you the praise of men, but weakness brings you to God. (Anonymous)

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might. (Ecclesiastes 9:10)

Do not pay attention to every word people say,
     or you may hear your servant cursing you—
for you know in your heart
     that many times you yourself have cursed others. (Ecclesiastes 7:21-22)

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. (Tyron Edwards")

There is no relationship of greater importance to achieve than the relationship between you, in your physical body, right here and now, and the Soul/Source/God from which you have come. If you tend to that relationship, first and foremost, you will then, and only then, have the stable footing to proceed into other relationships. Your relationship with your own body; your relationship with money; your relationship with your parents, children, grandchildren, the people you work with, your government, your world . . . will all fall swiftly and easily into alignment once you tend to this fundamental, primary relationship first. (Esther Hicks)

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. (Epictetus)

History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible: destroy their family and work ethic. (Walter Williams)

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you. (Marcus Aurelius)

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal. (Louis K. Anspacher)

What if every unexpected delay, postponement, or redirect, Donald, only meant that at the very last second, right before the scheduled manifestation, I had an even better idea?
It happens.
     The Universe (TUT)

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears. (Rudyard Kipling)

Once one passes through the entry gates of time and space (Donald, this applies to you), it may be handy to know that simply dwelling upon joy, abundance, or anything else involving people, will literally draw complete strangers into your life, as if they were puppets on marionette strings. Creating new and totally unpredictable circumstances that will bring you more, more, more of whatever you were thinking about.
Rebel yell optional
     The Universe (TUT)

Give me control of a nation's money supply and I care not who makes the laws. (Meyer Rothschild)

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. (Thomas Jefferson)

Elections are supposed to resolve conflicts in a great democracy, but our next one will not. The elites will face off against the elites to a standoff, and the issues animating the class war in both parties won't even be on the table. (Frank Rich)

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. (Ghandi)

Forgive those who insult you, attack you, belittle you, or take you for granted. But more this this... forgive yourself for allowing them to hurt you. (Anonymous)

It is not so much that time heals all wounds as it is that the passage of the years lets us make peace with our grief in our way. (David Baldacci)

When you see things that pain you, Donald, that sadden you, or that make your heart ache, remember... you're not seeing all.
I hope you never need this one.
All love,
You're welcome,
     The Universe (TUT)

If you don't plant flowers in the garden of your mind, you'll forver pull weeds. (John Demartini)

God casts our sins into the depths of the sea and then posts a sign, "No Fishing Allowed." (Corrie ten Boom)

The best you can do for anyone is to thrive fully and be willing to explain to anyone who asks how it is that you are thriving, and what it is that you've discovered—and then, just relax and trust that all truly is well. (Esther Hicks)

Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety. (Henry H. Tweedy)

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. (Adelai Stevenson)

Faith ends where worry begins and worry ends where faith begins. (George Mueller)

Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers. (Frank McKinney Hubbard)

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. (Carl Jung)

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. (Thomas Jefferson)

Women are Angels. And when someone breaks their wings they Simply continue to fly on a broomstick.They are flexible like that. (Anonymous)

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. (John F. Kennedy)

The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove. (Samuel Johnson)

Success is not being done; not being complete. Success is still dreaming and feeling positive in the unfolding. (Esther Hicks)

You can't reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday's junk. (Louise Smith)

The doctrine of punctuation must needs be very imperfect: few precise rules can be given, which will hold without exception in all cases; but much must be left to the judgement and taste of the writer. (A Short Introduction to English Grammar, 1762)

You are free to choose but you are not free from the consquences of your choices. (Anonymous)

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. (Abraham Lincoln)

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive (Orlando A. Battista)

The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that it's difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine. (Abraham Lincoln)

You can never make the same mistake twice because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choice. (Anonymous)

You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last chapter. (Anonymous)

I don't think the worst thing that could happen to me is raising a child with sepcial needs. I think the worst thing would be to raise a child who is cruel to those with special needs. (Anonymous)

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. (Elizabeth Kubler Ross)

Yo! Ho! Ho! Donald, it's time for more good news and bad news!!!
The bad news, is that there are going to be a few more challenges.
Ha! You're right, that's the good news, too!
Each proving that you're even greater, cooler, and more lovable than you now realize.
You're welcome,
     The Universe (TUT)

How about, Donald, next time you go to work, the mall, or a labyrinth, you glide, slide, and twirl a bit? Wink, smile, and wave? Dip, bend, and high-five? Strut, saunter, and beam?
Just a bit?
Teeny, tiny?
     The Universe (TUT)

Life is too short to stress yourself with people who don't deserve to be an issue in your life. (Anonymous)

So many people need you to behave in a certain way for them to feel good. They condemn you for your selfishness. "How dare you be so selfish as to follow what makes you feel good? You should follow what makes us feel good." (Esther Hicks)

I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there. (Mother Theresa)

If you live your life as though every day would be the last day in your life, someday it will be. (Anonymous)

Remembering you are going to die is the best way to remember you have nothing to lose. “You are already naked, you have nothing to lose by following you heart." (Steve Jobs)

It's as if before you there are countless doorways, all leading to new and different hallways. So you wonder and think, calculate and stress, over whether or not you'll knock on the "right" one.
But what you can't yet see, Donald, is that all of the hallways beyond all of the doorways eventually lead to the same great room, in the same great house, with the same great party.
So, may as well pick the one you want? Huh?
     The Universe (TUT)

There is perhaps, no greater debilitating belief, Donald, than thinking there are elements of your reality that you cannot control — be they fate, karma, the influence of other people, your stars, your palm, your loves, your looks, your personality, your intelligence, your sense of humor, or chocolate.
You simply decide everything, moment to moment.
Next decision please —
     The Universe (TUT)

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. (Sigmund Freud)

Love Thy Neighbor
Thy Homeless Neighbor
Thy Muslim Neighbor
Thy Black Neighbor
Thy Gay Neighbor
Thy White Neighbor
Thy Jewish Neighbor
Thy Christian Neighbor
Thy Atheist Neighbor
Thy Racist Neighbor
Thy Addicted Neighbor

Apologising does not always mean that you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means that you value your relationship more than your ego. (Anonymous)

Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking that it is stupid. (Albert Einstein)

Holding a grudge is letting someone live rent-free in your head. (Anonymous)

What you want to keep secret, tell no one. If you could not control your urge to tell, how can you expect silence from anyone else? (Latin Proverb)

On A Sign:
Tired of being harrassed by your stupid parents?
ACT NOW
Move out. Get a job.
Pay your bills while you still know everything. (Anonymous)

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life. (Esther Hicks)

It's funny, Donald, but the more proficient one becomes at navigating the ship of their dreams, the more they leave the navigating to me (and the smoother the sailing).
And vice versa — the more they leave the navigating to me, the more proficient they become.
Your nautical wheeler —
Whooohoooo,
     The Universe (TUT)

The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. (Nicolas Chamfort

Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them. (Anonymous)

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed. (Anonymous)

Are we for marriage? Yes. Are we for divorce? Yes. Are we for monogamy? Yes. All of you have different ways of satisfying your desires, and all of it is appropriate or not. And only you, individually, know if it is appropriate or inappropriate unto you in this moment.(Esther Hicks)

If your back isn't broken, if your feet can walk, if both arms can bend, if both eyes can see, and if both ears can hear, then whom should you envy? (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)

For the husband who told his wife he loved her before his plane went down in a field. For the wife who stopped in the stairs to call her husband to say she will love him forever. For the mothers and fathers who kissed their kids goodbye that morning for the last time. For the policemen, firemen, and other rescue workers who rushed in to help others and lost their lives. For the soldiers who fought back and made the ultimate sacrifice. Today, tomorrow, ten years from now, we will remember.

Sara Palin's three interlocking points:

First, that the United States is now governed by a "permanent political class," drawn from both parties, that is increasingly cut off from the concerns of regular people.
Second, that these Republicans and Democrats have allied with big business to mutual advantage to create what she called "corporate crony capitalism."
Third, that the real political divide in the United States may no longer be between friends and foes of Big Government, but between friends and foes of vast, remote, unaccountable institutions (both public and private).

(This didn't belong here — it is no quote — but I needed to save it someplace.)

May gentle grace gift you with peace. (Rita Montgomery)

Love can heal the deepest wound of all time and love can also be the reason why that wound was so deep. (Danielle Brigaman)

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? (George Eliot)

Beauty and seduction are nature's tools for survival because we protect what we fall in love with. (Louie Schwartzberg)

While one's capacity to dream great dreams is truly infinite, Donald, the capacity to do great things is mightily dependent upon one's ability to do little, baby, trite, mortal, dull, and sometimes silly things.
Yeah, easy for you, huh?
Whooohoooo,
     The Universe (TUT)

God sells us all things at the price of labor. (Leonardo da Vinci)

The end of labor is to gain leisure. (Aristotle)

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine were taken away. (Anaxagoras)

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. (Bertrand Russell)

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. (Rumi)

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. (Joseph Priestley)

Every religion on the planet, and there are so many more than you are even aware of, has the potential of absolute thriving. But when you think that you must prove that you have the only one that is right—and you use your condemnation to push against the others—your condemnation separates you from your own Connection that, before your condemnation, you were finding in your own religion. (Esther Hicks)

Of course there are exceptions, but all-in-all it seems to me that those who are religious, cling, whereas those who are spiritual, seek.
But to be really honest, Donald, it's the happy folks who know how to live.
Grins,
Next,
     The Universe (TUT)

Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training. (Anna Freud)

If you are depressed, you are living in the past.
If you are anxious, you are living in the future.
If you are at peace, you are living in the present. (Lao-Tze)

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. (Herbert Spencer)

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. (Marcus Aurelius)

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small. (Anonymous)

Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't.
Life is ten percent what you make it, and ninety percent how you take it! (Anonymous)

‎Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.
The most difficult things in the world are done when they are easy, the greatest things in the world are done when they are still small. (Chuang-tzu)

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it (Peace Pilgrim)

There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living (Karl Marx)

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation. (Leo Tolstoy)

But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think. (Lord Byron)

The eternal substance of a thing never lies in the thing itself, but in the quality of our reaction toward it. If in hard times we are kept from resentment, held in silence, and filled with inward sweetness, that is what matters. The event that distressed us will pass from memory just as a wind that passes and is gone. But what we were while the wind was blowing has eternal consequences. (A. Wetherell Johnson)

There is no crime of which I do not consider myself capable. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

They ne'er car'd for us yet. Suffer us to famish, and their storehouses cramm'd with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will. (Shakespeare)

So come on, let's leave the preschool fingerpainting exercises and get on with the grand work of art. Grow up in Christ. The basic foundational truths are in place: turning your back on "salvation by self-help" and turning in trust toward God. (Heb. 6:1 MSG)

Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:
This wide and universal theatre
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
        Wherein we play in. (Shakespeare)

And this our life, exempt frompublic haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything. (Shakespeare)

The nearer the church the farther from God. (Sir Walter Scott)

His taints and honours
Wag'd equal with him. (Shakespeare)

The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack. The round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens. The death of Antony
Is not a single doom. (Shakespeare)

But when we in our viciousness grow hard —
O misery on't! — the wise gods seel our eyes,
In our own filth drop our clear judgments, make us
Adore our errors, laugh at's while we strut
To our confusion (Shakespeare)

The lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing. (Zephaniah 3:17)

All who sing have the right to be called the children of God. (Zambian Saying)

God must have been disappointed in Adam — He made Eve so different. (Anonymous)

When we are judging others, we have no time to love them. (Mother Theresa)

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air. ( Franklin D. Roosevelt)

You don't get what you want in life.
You get what you expect. (Anonymous)

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. (Havelock Ellis)

If the US Government was a family, they would be making $58,000 a year, they spend $75,000 a year, & are $327,000 in credit card debt. They are currently proposing BIG spending cuts to reduce their spending to $72,000 a year. These are the actual proportions of the federal budget & debt, reduced to a level that we can understand. (Dave Ramsey)

We are all on a perpetual cycle of joyous becoming. We will never get it done, ever, ever, ever, ever. (Esther Hicks)

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage. (George C. Lorimer)

What we are seeing is a stupendous pile-up of immensely careless people who have been heading for trouble for more than a decade now.... because of the folly of supplyside economices, which falsely assured Americans they could have their cake and eat it too....
Both parties got us into this mess; it will take both parties to get us out. (Ben Stein)

I did the best I could. And then, when I knew how to do better, I did better.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, "Candle making industry threatened." (Newt Gingrich)

In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them. (Yevgeny Yevtushenko)

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God. (Anonymous)

The great thing about feeling deep, profound, earthshaking love, Donald, is that you can start with anyone.
Next,
     The Universe (TUT)

The journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path.... One that we must all take. The grey rain curtain of this world rolls back and all turns to silver glass. And then you see it. White shores. And beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise. (J.R.R. Tokien)

A generous deed should not be checked by cold cousel. (J.R.R. Tokien)

All you have to do is decide what to do with the time given to you. (J.R.R. Tokien)

Baby souls follow.
Young souls lead.
But old souls, Donald, are happy to dance alone.
Not that I'm spying on you,
     The Universe (TUT)

We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives — but in what we do for others. (Harry Truman)

My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference! (Harry Truman)

Rather than wanting to hold to the past longer and slow things down and stop the aging process — just revel in the power of now! You can't stop time, and you won't stop the recycling process that is taking place upon this planet, nor would you want to — but you do not have to suffer the moving through time. Every moment can be more wonderful than the moment before. (Esther Hicks)

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. (Franz Kafka)

Once you start rejoicing whatever you are, life takes such psychedelic colors, your each moment becomes so juicy, your whole life becomes a celebration.(OSHO)

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. (Omar Khayyam)

There are more connections in every square millimeter of a human brain then stars in the milky way. (Matthew Huntington)

What if evangelicals today, instead of focusing on “evangelizing” and “converting” people, were to begin to think of Jesus not as starting a new religion, but as the central figure of a movement that transcends religious distinctions and identities? (Carl Medearis)

Encouraging anyone and everyone to become an apprentice of Jesus, without manipulation, is a more open, dynamic and relational way of helping people who want to become more like Jesus — regardless of their religious identity. (Carl Medearis)

Trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice. (Sarah Vaughan)

To grow...you must be willing to let your present and future...be totally unlike your past...your history is not your destiny. (Anonymous)

I wish I were being ironic, but I just saw Dolly Parton at the Hollywood Bowl and loved it. (Adam Huntington)

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. (Samuel Johnson)

More important than anything else I learned during my hitch in the Navy was a piece of wisdom that one of the instructors shared with me, "You will have a difficult life," he said, "if you don’t learn one important fact — If you aren’t having fun you aren’t doing it right." (Randy Sierra)

My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good. (Anita Roddick)

Some, Donald, are better loved from a distance.
For a while, anyway.
And that's OK.
     The Universe (TUT)

People who are evil attack others rather than face their own failures. (M. Scott Peck)

Most people think that courage is the absence of fear.
The absence of fear is not courage; the absence of fear is some kind of brain damage. (M. Scott Peck)

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. (Ambrose Redmoon)

I hate all this silly religion, but you, God, I trust. (Psalm 31:6 MSG)

Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:
This wide and universal theatre
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in. (Shakespeare)

The nearer the church the farther from God. (Sir Walter Scott)

His taints and honours
Wag'd equal with him. (Shakespeare)

But when we in our viciousness grow hard —
O misery on't! — the wise gods seel our eyes,
In our own filth drop our clear judgments, make us
Adore our errors, laugh at's while we strut
To our confusion (Shakespeare)

The lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing. (Zephaniah 3:17)

All who sing have the right to be called the children of God. (Zambian Saying)

The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries. (Francis Picabia)

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.(Charles Kingsley)

Many people are wanting to fan your flames of discomfort, because they believe that "you're either with us or against us; if you don't stand in the same disgust and horror that we are all standing, then you are not with us." It's hard for people to understand that you can at the same time not agree with them and still not be against them. That you could be for something without being against something else. (Esther Hicks)

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining — they just shine. (Dwight L. Moody)

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18. (Albert Einstein)

Struggle and joy are not on the same channel. You joy your way to joy. You laugh your way to success. It is through your joy that good things come. (Buddha)

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so let us be thankful. (Buddha)

Carpe diem!
Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.(Horace)

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things; to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. (Mary Oliver)

An effective parent is a happy parent. An effective parent is a parent who laughs easily and often; and who doesn't take things so seriously. (Esther Hicks)

When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. (Edward Teller)

As you turn your attention toward the positive aspects of the personalities and behaviors of others with whom you share your planet, you will train your point of attraction in the direction of only what you desire. Not only does the power of your thought determine which people make their way into your life, but the power of your thought determines how they behave once they get there. (Esther Hicks)

There is no wild beast so ferocious as Christians who differ concerning their faith. (W. E. H. Lecky)

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. (Groucho Marx)

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment. (Anonymous)

It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years — we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on. (Sharon Salzberg)

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself. If all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. (Simone de Beauvoir)

You can't punish yourself into change. You can't whip yourself into shape. But you can love yourself into well-being. (Susan Skype)

I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it. (Maya Angelou)

Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly.... Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. (Quentin Crisp)

You think that the goal is to be over there, and we say the goal is the journey over there; the goal is the fun you have along the way on your way to over there. (Esther Hicks)

You cannot continue to beat the drum of things that don't feel good when you beat them—without filling your future experience full of things that don't feel good. (Esther Hicks)

You can pile up as many worldly possessions around you as you like, but they will never fill you up on the inside, only create a wall between you and the world. (Carrell Hambrick)

We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists. (Thomas Jefferson)

Test regarding the government.
"This test is not an easy one. The website reports that college educators average about 55%. The average citizen averages about 49%."

My results: You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %
(I really should have gotten one of the misses correct....)

We didn't say: when you feel good you are allowing good, and when you feel bad you are allowing bad (although it may translate into your experience in that way). There is only a Source of Well-being—which you are allowing or not. (Esther Hicks)

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. (Michel de Montaigne)

The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook. (Julia Child)

You are the cause of whatsoever is happening to you. You are the cause, and the world is just a mirror. But it is consolatory always to find the cause somewhere else. Then you never feel guilt, you never feel self-condemned. You can always point out that here is the cause, and unless this cause changes, "How can I change?" You can escape into it; this is a trick. (OSHO)

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. (Oprah Winfrey)

The odd thing about the often long and lonely path of life, Donald, is that when you get to the end of it and look back, you'll find that it was neither of these.
Swoosh,
     The Universe (TUT)

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper. (Emo Philips)

You cannot get sick enough to help sick people get better. You cannot get poor enough to help poor people thrive. It is only in your thriving that you have anything to offer anyone. If you're wanting to be of an advantage to others, be as tapped in, turned in, turned on as you can possibly be. (Esther Hicks)

As you think thoughts that feel good to you, you will be in harmony with who-you-really-are. And in doing so you will utilize your profound freedom. Seek joy first, and all of the growth that you could ever imagine will come joyously and abundantly unto you. (Esther Hicks)

When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer. (Russel H. Conwell)

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. (Edgar Watson Howe)

Nought shall prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings. (William Wordsworth)

Make crime pay. Become a Lawyer. (Will Rogers)

The best thing about every financial meltdown, Donald, global or otherwise, is learning that whatever was lost, can be recreated.
Hold on loosely,
     The Universe (TUT)

See everyone you meet, Donald, as a brand new invitation to fall in love with me.
Sneaky, huh?
Kiss, kiss
     The Universe (TUT)

Some people would rather be wrong than quiet for a minute. (Anonymous)

Last year's "Call of Duty: Black Ops" didn't just break video-game records. Selling 5.6 million copies in 24 hours and grossing $650 million in its first five days.... By comparison, "Avatar" grossed $77 million in its opening weekend. (Doug Gross, CNN)

Reality is impermanent in the sense that all things change from moment to moment. When we learn to stop resisting the way things are...happiness and peace arrive at our doorstep. (Sandy Carmellini)

When you raise the bar, Donald, I jump higher.
Ready?
     The Universe (TUT)

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. (Terry Hands)

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. (Benjamin Franklin)

Fall seven times; stand up eight. (Japanese proverb)

You must be the change you want to see in the world. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. (Jimmy Dean)

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven (John Milton)

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. (James Oppenheim)

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. (Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire)

Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. (Don Hirschberg)

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking. (Ernest Renan)

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it, they must not do too much of it, and they must have a sense of success in it. (John Ruskin)

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.(Dave Barry)

There are only two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. (Denis Waitley)

How adventurous would life be, Donald, if you were "challenge free"? If you had the perfect body, perfect self-esteem, everyone adored you, and you won the lottery every Sunday?
Not.
Now what if, painful as they may temporarily be, you could choose a life during which challenges might arise whenever your thinking needed expansion, on the sole condition that every one of them could be overcome no matter how daunting they may at first seem?
Everything makes you more,
     The Universe (TUT)

Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak. (Anonymous)

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. (Leonardo da Vinci)

We would never go to court for any reason, because that is a physical act of exclusion as big as we've ever seen it, and we've never seen anybody ultimately benefit from that.(Esther Hicks)

You are 1 person out of 7 billion people
On 1 planet out of 8 planets
In 1 star system out of 100 billion star systems
In 1 galaxy out of 100 billion galaxies
So you are enormously insignificant
     ...on the other hand....
Out of 100 billion galaxies
existing in 100 billion star systems
out of 7 billion people
you have your own unique genetic makeup
your thumbprint is yours alone
you can create art
and write a song
and are depended upon by others that love you
you are enormously signficant.

Lord when I ask for something and you have something better...please cancel my request. (Anonymous)

Your thoughts become words, your words become actions, your actions become habits, your habits become your character, and your character becomes your destiny. Be careful of what you think. (Lao-Tze)

God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him. (Cher)

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. (William Tecumseh Sherman)

Energy misalignment, is asking or demanding too much of yourself in terms of time and effort. In other words, you just cannot burn the candle at both ends, so that you are physically tired, and then expect yourself to have a cheerful attitude. So, the rule of thumb has to be: "I'm going to be very, very, very happy, and then do everything I have time to do after that." (Esther Hicks)

The reason a dog has so many friends is because he wags his tail instead of his tongue... (Anonymous)

Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the Universe. (St. Therese of Lisieux)

Education is not filling a pail — it's lighting a fire. (William Butler Yeats)

Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want. (Esther Hicks)

Our lives are streams flowing into the same river towards whatever heaven lies in the mists beyond the falls. Find the joy in your life. Close your eyes and let the stream take you home. (Justin Zackham)

The very most anyone ever has to overcome, Donald, is today.
Which is actually the "height limit" on all metaphorical lions, tigers and bears.
Double GRR-R-R-R-R...,
     The Universe (TUT)

Good friends are like bras, supportive, never leave you hanging, make you look good, and are always close to your heart. (Anonymous)

The parables of Jesus were table talk. Their metaphors of masters and servants and meals were prompted by immediate and commonplace surroundings.... However, the familiar stories are like a mind field full of traps and trip wires. They all contain contradictions, alienating elements, which brings the listener up short and make him see a new potential, for good or evil, in the most banal event. (Morris West)

What we cannot cope with is the untidiness of the universe, the lunatic aspect of a cosmos with no known beginning or visible end and no apparent meaning to all its burtling dynamics.... We cannot tolerate its monstrous indifference in the face of all our fears and agonies.... The prophets offer us hope; but only the man-god can make the paradox tolerable. This is why the coming of Jesus is a healing and a saving event. (Morris West)

The Kingdom of God is a dwelling place for men. What else can it signify but a condition in which human existence is not only tolerable but joyful — because it is open to infinity. (Anonymous)

May I be filled with loving-kindness
May I be free from suffering
May I be well.
May I be at peace.
May I be joyful. (Namaste)

May you be filled with loving-kindness
May you be free from suffering
May you be well.
May you be at peace.
May you be joyful. (Namaste)

The biggest mistake we've all made through the ages is to try to explain the ways of God to men. We shouldn't do that. We should just announce him. He explains himself very well. (Morris West)

God respects me when I work, but He loves me when I sing. (Anonymous)

Some people are happiest, Donald, when they have something to be unhappy about.
Let 'em have it.
Not you,
     The Universe (TUT)

‎I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.(Nelson Mandela)

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)

In time and space, Donald, if you just look for what's right — in others, in relationships, in yourself and your journey — you'll always find it.
Same when looking for what's wrong.
Tallyho,
     The Universe (TUT)

Gossip ends at a wise person’s ears. (ODB)

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. (James Samuel Gordon)

Politics: The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. (Ambrose Bierce)

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)

Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest. (Seneca)

The best thing you could do for anyone that you love, is be happy! And the very worst thing that you could do for anyone that you love, is be unhappy, and then ask them to to try to change it, when there is nothing that anybody else can do that will make you happy. If it is your dominant intent to hold yourself in vibrational harmony with who you really are, you could never offer any action that would cause anybody else to be unhappy. (Esther Hicks)

The difference between taking baby steps and acting small, is that one prepares you for success, the other for a fall. (TUT)

Most people walk in and out of your life, but FRIENDS leave footprints in your heart. (Anonymous)

The standard of success in life isn't the things. It isn't the money or the stuff — it is absolutely the amount of joy you feel. (Esther Hicks)

The world breaks everyone and afterwards some are strong at the broken places. (Ernest Hemingway)

If Earth were the size and weight of a table tennis ball, the Sun would measure 12 feet and weigh 3 tons. On this scale, Earth would orbit the sun at a distance of 1,325 feet. (Anonymous)

Between the two of you, I doubt I could put together a three-digit IQ. (Judge Judy)

The most important decision you will ever make is how you will spend the present moment. (Gaurav)

It is not what you take when you leave the world behind you; it’s what you leave behind you when you go. (Randy Travis)

Holding onto your anger is like clutching a vibrating pole.
The harder you clench, the more every part of your being vibrates in reaction. (Kare Anderson)

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional linkthat is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to disolve that link and get free. (Catherine Ponder)

The remarkable thing is that we really 'do' love our neghbor as ourselves; we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant towards others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves. (Eric Hoffer)

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. (Bryant H. McGill)

When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there's usually less resistance within you than when you talk about what you want and how you're going to get it. When you pose questions you don't have answers for, like how, where, when, who, it sets up a contradictory vibration that slows everything down. (Esther Hicks)

One's ability to succeed, Donald, is always proportional to one's willingness to fail.
     Besides, all failures are temporary, all tigers are paper, and life is a many splendored thing.
     Go for it, Donald!
     The Universe (TUT)

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. (Oscar Wilde)

If speaking to a spiritual novice during the darker days of human evolution, Donald, one might explain God, metaphorically, as if "He" were angry, testing, and judgmental.
     To someone a bit more savvy, during easier times, one might explain God, metaphorically, as if "She" were always loving, nurturing, and forever conspiring on our behalf.
     And to someone on the verge of a total breakthrough, during the latter days of human evolution, one might explain God by asking them to turn up the music, take off their shoes, walk in the grass, unleash the dogs, free the canary, catch a breeze, ride a wave, dance every day, get up early, take a nap, stay out late, eat chocolate, feel the love, give stuff away, earn it back, give some more, and laugh.... Really.
     Really, really.
     Catch a breeze, Donald
     The Universe (TUT)

Private business and workers can't rely on money from taxes or fees to bail them out..., but PUBLIC EMPLOYEES, and PUBLIC EMPLOYERS can. They are paid by us. We are the BOSS, We (you-Me-them-us) are paying. We want to treat our workers well, but we trusted politicians to be our collective bargaining team (for both sides) and allowed vote hungry politicians to convince us they had our best interest at heart. They sold us out (even those of us in public jobs). So now we are firing our teachers, firemen, police officers, and county nurses, we are closing schools, etc. because the money to pay them is 'ear marked' for those 'promised pensions and health care' (all negotiated between Political Unions, and Political Employers). Unless we as tax payers stop the bleeding, and rein in this kind of spending we will see jobless rates stay where they are, and you might as well consign yourself to servitude just to pay for these unrealistic EAR MARKS. (Carol Gwin)

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. (Chinese Proverb)

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes it own punishment in silence. (Dorothy Dix)

Anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find our you're wrong. (Lizzy Goodman)

If anyone could be expected to have a problem with the Park51 plan, it might be Father Mark Arey, the ecumenical officer of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. His church, St. Nicholas, was crushed by the collapse of the World Trade Center's South Tower on September 11, 2001, and the Port Authority has yet to clear the way for it to be rebuilt. But when Arey started getting calls asking, "Aren't you people outraged that they're building a mosque, and you can't rebuild your church?" his answer was always the same "We support freedom of religion, period."

Tracking technology helps services like Amazon and Netflix make purchase recoommendations. Tracking helps newspapers like the New Your Times and other online publications place ads that you'll actually care about.... The Web without tracking technology would be so much worse for users and consumers. (Fred Wilson, writer for New York Times)

Physical man gets into an uncomfortable place when he concludes, "I and those like me have come to the right decisions, and everybody that's living outside of these right decisions is wrong." And then he spends his life pushing against all those "wrong" decisions and cutting himself off from the Life Force that would help him have joy in his, what he concludes to be, right decisions. There is no one right path. There are endless paths, and the differences in the paths are what make them more and more, and more, perfect. The same old path no longer serves. (Esther Hicks)

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. (Eckhart Tolle)

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

If we ever have patience to get through the noise and static going on in the lives of people who appear only to be couch potatos, we would always be able to catch a little flute-like melody that might fill us with delight. (Cristiana)

Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. If you're friendly, then everybody else seems to be friendly too. (David Hawkins)

(from Profiles of the Godless) Results from a survey of the nonreligious found that the highest life satisfaction was found on both ends of the spectrum — the confident atheists and the confident theists. The happiness and emotional stability of these two groups were statistically equivalent, exceeding that of the general population. It was the doubters and the seekers, the people in the middle who weren't sure either way, who were worse off. (There is No God-shaped Hole)

There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every person, and it can never be filled by any created thing. It can only be filled by God, made known through Jesus Christ. (Blaise Pascal)

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. (Herbert Agar)

The thing about making it big, and doing it fast, Donald, is that invariably the first steps will be small and slow.
     Which oddly, for many, is the same reason they don't take them.
     You know better, huh, Donald?
     Huh, huh, huh?
     The Universe (TUT)

You can't take sides against anything. If you would just leave the "against" part out; if you would just be one who is for things — you would live happily ever after.... (Esther Hicks)

Honesty in the absence of compassion becomes cruelty. Tenacity unmediated by flexibility congeals into rigidity. Confidence untempered by humility is arrogance. Courage without prudence is recklessness. Because all virtues are entailed, any strength overused ultimately becomes a liability. Breathing in is relaxing, but only if we’re equally capable of exhaling. (Tony Schwartz)

Life is what happens to you when your busy making other plans. (John Lennin)

The main thing those who've "passed" would like to tell those who've not "passed," Donald, is that once you get over the shock of having safely arrived — completely intact, cool as ever, and bathed in love — what you'll miss most about Earth, after ice cream, is the beguiling romance of uncertainty.
     Oh yes you will.
     You really do have it made. (TUT)

We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him. (Michel de Montaigne)

Affinity, Reality, and Communication forms the emotional response that partners have toward each other; reality is the area of common agreement. Together, these contribute to the flow of communication. The three parts together equal understanding. If you’re having a disagreement with someone, your affinity drops quickly. Your mutual reality is shattered. Your communication becomes more halted. You begin to talk over each other. There’s less and less understanding. But all you need to do is to raise one part of the triangle and you increase the others as well. (Fr The New Yorker)

I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. (Daniel Boone)

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. (Ben Franklin)

You are just a few laughs away from letting a whole lot of good stuff in. You are just a few kisses away from letting a whole lot of good stuff in. (Esther Hicks)

Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon preserved in a museum. Only when we find the spring of wisdom in our life can it flow into future generations. (Thich Nhat Hanh)

A bird does not sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song (Chinese proverb)

Have you ever wondered, Donald, why most people have less trouble with walking and not falling down, talking and making perfect sense, and breathing without stop, than they do with dieting, finding love, or getting rich? Of course not, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.
     It's because with walking, talking, and breathing (which, incidentally, are infinitely more complex than the latter), they engage the magic with intent and expectation, twitch a few general muscles to get things started, and then, with faith, they turn the rest over to me.
     In the second group, they try to do it all themselves.
     I rock like that,
     The Universe (TUT)

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. (George Burns)

‎Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. (Voltaire)

If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story. (Esther Hicks)

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. (George Best)

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. (Bob Wells)

Like most things in life, Donald, getting what you want, or doing something new, or being really honest with yourself, is typically very, very hard for first timers, but then.... it becomes patently, ridiculously, absurdly and preposterously EASY for the rest of eternity.
     I'd say do it right, nail it, whatever it takes, because "easy" is good, and eternity is long. The Universe (TUT)

Enthusiasm is contagious — and so is the lack of it. (Anonymous)

Dollars aren't the root of happiness but they are not the root of evil either. They are the result of how somebody lines up Energy. If you don't want dollars, don't attract dollars. But we say to you, your criticism of others who have dollars, holds you in a place where things you do want, like wellness and clarity and Well-being, can't come to you either. (Esther Hicks)

You can always see the little girl or little boy in another, if you but look. And then how you can see that the mask they sometimes wear isn't to inspire your fear, but to hide their own. (TUT)

While your societies continue to try to dictate and enforce human behavior to please the majority — because of your diversity, it continues to be an uncomfortable struggle that, again and again, falls of its economic weight. There simply is not enough money in the world to buck the natural currents of individual freedom and independence of thought. (Esther Hicks)

We never know how high we are
     Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
     Our statures touch the skies.
The Heroism we recite
     Would be a daily thing,
Did not ourselves the Cubits warp
     For fear to be a King. (Emily Dickenson)

Not only does the power of your thought determine which people make their way into your life, but the power of your thought determines how they behave once they get there. (Esther Hicks)

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. (Edmund Burke)

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. (Ernest Benn

Truth hurts — not the searching after; the running from! (John Eyberg)

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul. (Oscar Wilde)

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid. (Richard Bach)

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. (Baltasar Gracian)

There is a little tree planted on a little hill and on that tree hangs the most influential character that ever came in this world. But never feel that that tree is a meaningless drama that took place on the stages of history. Oh no, it is a telescope through which we look out into the long vista of eternity, and see the love of God breaking forth into time. It is an eternal reminder to a power-drunk generation that love is the only way. It is an eternal reminder to a generation depending on nuclear and atomic energy, a generation depending on physical violence, that love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power in the universe. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Hate distorts the personality of the hater. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

The person who hates you most has some good in him; even the nation that hates you most has some good in it; even the race that hates you most has some good in it. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

There is enough stuff in me to make both a gentleman and a rogue. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Democracy is the greatest form of government to my mind that man has ever conceived, but the weakness is that we have never touched it. Isn't it true that we have often taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes? Isn't it true that we have often in our democracy trampled over individuals and races with the iron feet of oppression? Isn't it true that through our Western powers we have perpetuated colonialism and imperialism? (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Some people will not like you, not because of something you have done to them, but they just won't like you.... Some people aren't going to like the way you walk; some people aren't going to like the way you talk. Some people aren't going to like you because you can do your job better than they can do theirs. Some people aren't going to like you because other people like you, and because you're popular, and because you're well-liked.... (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness. (Heather Armstrong)

Some people are like Slinkys — They're not really good for anything, but they bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs. (Jim Aster)

one of the fastest ways to make your way to a wonderful relationship is to find any subject that consistently feels good, and focus on that even if it has nothing to do with relationships. (Esther Hicks)

Why don't the bad people suffer in the world? My answer: they do..... Their punishment is very real and very severe.... They run the risk of coming to the end of their lives without ever having known the satisfaction of genuine love, self-discipline unselfishness, generosity. That, it seems to me, is a worse punishment than going to jail, worse than being stuck by little red figures with pitchforks or dipped in fiery brimstone. (Harold Kushner)

You can find yourself in an endless loop where you explain that you feel negative because of the negative behavior of someone else. But if, instead, you take control of your own emotions and you think an improved thought because it feels better to do so, you will discover that no matter how the negative trend got started, you can turn it around. (Esther Hicks)

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. (Peter Ustinov)

To have an incredible increase in self-esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don't have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self-esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one. (Jim Rohn)

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you. (William Arthur Ward)

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. (Evan Esar)

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head. (Dennis Miller)

Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light. (Yogi Bajan)

There is no relationship of greater importance to achieve than the relationship between you, in your physical body, right here and now, and the Soul/Source/God from which you have come. If you tend to that relationship, first and foremost, you will then, and only then, have the stable footing to proceed into other relationships. (Esther Hicks)

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (Albert Einstein)

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. (Albert Einstein)

If you love someone, 'show it' is better than 'telling it.' If you hate someone,'tell it,' is better than 'showing it.' (Anonymous)

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. (Mother Theresa)

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. (A.A. Milne)

Only the dead have seen the end of war. (George Santayana)

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. (George Santayana)

You cannot get sick enough to help sick people get better. You cannot get poor enough to help poor people thrive. It is only in your thriving that you have anything to offer anyone. If you're wanting to be of an advantage to others, be as tapped in, turned in, turned on as you can possibly be. (Esther Hicks)

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance. (Anonymous)

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. (Thomas H. Huxley)

If you would know God be not therefore a solver of riddles.
Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.
And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain.
You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees. (Kahlil Gibran)

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America. (James Joyce)

The majority have been programmed from their past experience to expect physical decline. And while it is something they don't want, they are programmed to expect it. And so, they're going to get what they expect. It's not that what they expect is the reality that everyone lives, but that everyone lives the reality of what they expect. (Esther Hicks)

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. (Victor Hugo)

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. (Violeta Parra)

The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. ((Hitopadesa)

Transform your vision into an abundantly productive work ethic that is uniquely yours. (Anonymous)

Let your dominant intent be to feel good which means be playful, have fun, laugh often, look for reasons to appreciate and practice the art of appreciation. And as you practice it, the Universe, who has been watching you practice, will give you constant opportunities to express it. So that your life just gets better and better and better. (Esther Hicks)

Don't worry about this world; it is not broken. And don't worry about others. You worry more about them than they do. There are people waging war; there are people on the battlefield who are more alive than they've ever been before. Don't try to protect people from life; just let them have their experience while you focus upon your own experience. (Esther Hicks)

A hard fall means a high bounce.... if you're made of the right material. (Anonymous)

You will notice that those who speak most of prosperity, have it. Those who speak most of health, have it. Those who speak most of sickness, have it. Those who speak most of poverty, have it. It is Law. It can be no other way.... (Esther Hicks)

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living. (J. Z. Young)

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. (Somerset Maugham)

Let your joy scream across the pain. (Elizabeth Wilder)

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. (Rita Rudner)

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. (Andy Rooney)

One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why. (Anonymous)

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. (Will Rogers)

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. (Mother Theresa)

If you can train yourself to think more and more of the needs of those around you, to work with people even if they are not always pleasant, you will be making yourself immune to depression, and you will be helping others to do the same. (Eknath Easwaran)

There are few human emotions as warm, comforting, and enveloping as self-pity. And nothing is more corrosive and destructive. There is only one answer; turn away from it and move on. (Dr Megan Reik)

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. (Lynda Barry)

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

If you believe everything you read, better not read. (Japanese Proverb)

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.... (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and cleaner. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. (H. H. Williams)

You control nothing until you control yourself. (Jacob McAllister)

It is our desire to help you to return to your natural appreciation of the others with whom you are sharing your planet so that you can fully enjoy every encounter with others, no matter how brief, or regardless of whether you agree with them or not. (Esther Hicks)

Marriage is a relationship where one person is always right, and the other is a husband. (Anonymous)

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. (Henri Frederic Amiel)

If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery. (Albert Einstein)

Everything you could have been, all the accolades you could have won and all the achievements that have been nagging at your mind until now, didn't happen for one reason only. You procrastinated. (Nisandeh Neta)

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact. (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A number of studies in the science of gratitude have shown that giving thanks not only helps you feel better, but improves your motivation to lose weight and exercise regularly. In one study, those who kept gratitude journals on a weekly basis had fewer health complaints, exercised more regularly, had an increased sense of well-being, and were more optimistic than those who recorded hassles or neutral life events. (Third-age.com)

Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. (John Petit-Sen)

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, and disregard of all the rules. (George Orwell)

When you feel an inspired eagerness to offer something because you want to participate in their happy, successful process, the infinite resources of the Universe are at your disposal. And that does help.(Esther Hicks)

Raising taxes doesn't reduce the deficit, it just gives corrupt politicians more of our money to waste. (Rich Inglis)

Do not tell the man carrying you that he stinks. (African Proverb)

With consistent releasing of resistance, all unwanted conditions will subside, returning you to your natural state of Well-Being. (Esther Hicks)

Faith is not a disease, but it is is cumminicable and it is responsible for a lot of deaths. (Anonymous)

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. (Marcel Proust)

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. (Charlotte Whitton)

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant — and let the air out of the tires. (Dorothy Parker)

Life is like licking honey off of a thorn. (Susan Lenzkes)

We would like to help you to understand that neither the good feeling you find when you observe wanted behavior, nor the bad feeling you find when you observe unwanted behavior, is actually the reason that you feel good or bad. The way you feel is only ever about your alignment, or misalignment, with the Source within you. (Esther Hicks)

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. (Charles F. Kettering)

Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you — not because they are nice, but because you are. (Anonymous)

Instead of singing like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune. (Henry David Thoreau)

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we feel entitled to demand of it — this is a very hard lesson. (Bruce Catton)

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. (Al Franken)

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world. (Al Franken)

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything. (Bill Lyon)

Religion is for people who fear hell. Spirituality is for those who have already been there. (Anonymous)

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. (Theodore Roosevelt)

Character, not circumstance, makes the person. (Booker T. Washington)

To exercise good character daily is to be morally fit for life. (Karen Hartz)

A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage — only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet. (Hendrik Hertzberg)

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.... Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. (Abigail van Buren)

The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. (Baron Thomas Babington Macauley)

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he's born. (William R. Inge)

If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits. (William J. Bennett)

Character is simply habit long continued. (Plutarch)

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work. (Beryl Markham)

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

It is not her critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause..., who at best knows achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt)

You're like a receiving mechanism that when you set your tuner to the station, you're going to hear what's playing. (Esther Hicks)

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. (Abraham Lincoln)

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness. (Paul Twitchell)

We would like you to reach the place where you're not willing to listen to people criticize one another... where you take no satisfaction from somebody being wrong... where it matters to you so much that you feel good, that you are only willing to think positive things about people...you are only willing to look for positive aspects; you are only willing to look for solutions, and you are not willing to beat the drum of all of the problems of the world. (Esther Hicks)

How is it that little children are so intelligent and adults so stupid? It must be education that does it. (Alexandre Dumas)

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. (Plato)

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. (Confucius)

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Berthold Auerbach)

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. (E. Y. Harburg)

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. (Albert Einstein)

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence.... We need silence to be able to touch souls. (Mother Theresa)

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important. (Madeleine L'Engle)

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. (Rene Descartes)

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. (Frederick E. Crane)

here's the rule of thumb about eating, or about investing in the stock market, or about anything else: If the impulse comes from a joyous thought that feels good, follow it. If the impulse comes from an uncomfortable thought that felt bad, don't follow it. (Esther Hicks)

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. (Norman Cousins)

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. (Jean Arp)

Depression is the inability to construct a future. (Rollo May)

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. (Julie Andrews)

You must not expect me to write in my own defense, nor to permit it from anyone about me. I know that the feeling of the troops under my command is favorable to me, and so long as I continue to do my duty faithfully it will remain so. I require no defenders. (Ulysses S Grant)

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. (Anonymous)

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. (Albert Schweitzer)

When we discover that we are lonely, it may be because we have not looked around to see who needs us. A person who is needed — really needed — is never lonely, never isolated, never without purpose in life. All we need is to go out and do something. The world is waiting for us with open arms. (Joan Chittister)

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Life your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. (Cherokee Expression)

It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter. (C.S. Lewis)

God gave man the challenge of raw materials — not the ease of finished things. He left the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation. (Anonymous)

You become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you. And you are always following other people, you are always trying to satisfy them. You are always trying to be respectable, you are always trying to decorate your ego. This is suicidal. (OSHO)

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone. (Hodding Carter)

A goal without a plan is just a wish. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. (Sir Barnett Cocks)

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Tolerance is a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. (Sir James Goldsmith)

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? (James Allen

Enthusiasm makes ordinary people extraordinary. (Anonymous)

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it. (Anonymous)

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, "what is the most valuable use of my time right now?" (Brian Tracy)

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows a common people to attain uncommon results. (Anonymous)

If a hug represented how much I loved you, I would hold you in my arms forever. (Mandy Hampton)

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. (Melody Beattie)

We're not encouraging it, but the motive behind lying is usually a pretty honorable motive. In other words, when a child lies to their parents, it's usually because they want to be free to do what they want to do, and they don't want their parents to be upset about it. It's about wanting an alignment. (Esther Hicks)

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. (James M. Barrie)

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. ( Arnold Bennett)

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. (Mother Theresa) [IMPORTANCE SIGNIFICANCE]

We would not spend any time trying to convince anybody of anything because if they're not asking, your answers are just irritating. (Esther Hicks)

Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it. (Saint Francis de Sales)

A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice.... The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of; our attention have been on God. But every noveltry prevents this; It fixes our attention on the service itself, and thinking about workship is a different thing from worshiping. The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. (C.S. Lewis)

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbor. (G. K. Chesterton)

In most cases it doesn't really matter what you decide. Just decide. There are endless options that would serve you enormously well, and all or any one of them is better than no decision. (Esther Hicks)

Make no judgments where you have no compassion. (Anne Mccaffrey)

People are like dirt.
They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die. (Plato)

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after. (Napoleon Hill)

Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Bless those who are finding abundance. And in your blessing of them and their abundance, you will become abundant, too. But in your cursing of their abundance, you hold yourself apart from it. It is a law — it is a powerful law. (Esther Hicks)

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running. (Anonymous)

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnamity of the rich. (Saadi)

What makes people decline is that they start forking in the direction that doesn't allow them to be the receivers of this never-ending Stream of Well- Being. You don't have to decline... "Happy, healthy, happy, healthy, happy, healthy, happy, healthy, dead!" That's Esther's plan.... (Esther Hicks)

A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. (Elmer G. Letterman)

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying. (Tom Hopkins)

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't. (Richard Bach) [COURAGE]

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated, will produce the rankest of weeds. (Leonardo de Vinci)

It's an interesting thing: More injustices, more discomfort, and more unhappiness is projected at others under the name of righteousness, under the name of law abiding, under the name of law, and under the name of religion, than all other things put together. In other words, don't worry about it. (Esther Hicks)

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. (Jim Rohn)

It's impossible for a woman to lay it on too thick with a man. If you tell a man he's eight feet tall and say it often enough, with your eyes wide and a throb in your voice, he'll start stooping to go through seven-foot doors. (Robert Heinlein)

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. (Mark Twain)

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. (Leopold Stokowski)

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. (James Baldwin)

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. (Woody Allen)

Be thankful for what you have. If you concentrate on what you don't have you will never ever have enough. (Oprah Winfrey)

Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never. (Sathya Sai Baba)

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. (G. K. Chesterton)

My true religion, my simple faith is in love and compassion. There is no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine, or dogma. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple. The doctrine is compassion. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are — these are ultimately all we need. (Dalai Lama)

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. (Tallulah Bankhead)

An intelligent person is always eager to take in more truth;
     fools feed on fast-food fads and fancies. (Proverbs 15:14 MSG)

The tight connection between being forgiven and forgiving others requires me to forgive others without dealing with the question of whether or not they deserved to be forgiven. I had to forgive them when I realized that I couldn't move forward without getting past the wall that any unforgiving spirit would raise between me and the future I wanted to move into. I came to see that I could not live any longer with that sense of hatred in my heart; that forgiveness was a gift that I gave myself more than a gift I could give to the people I was forgiving. (Saed Awwad)

Almighty God opened His heart to us through the event of the crucifixion. Whatever else He accomplished through His son's death on the cross, God can now point to that cross standing upon the top of the Hill of Calvary, with that bleeding figure impaled upon it's rough wood and say to us, "That's how much I loved you." (Saed Awwad)

No group operates without management. That's been one of the problems of the NFT — they've never had any. It's a world where they're much more socialistic. Until it comes to contrat time, in which case they're the ultimate capitalists. (Mike Bloomberg)

An inheritance is what you leave for someone; a legacy is what you leave in someone. (Don Patterson)

A friend of mine once said that Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly. (Francis Chan)

Discover the 90/10 Principle. It will change your life (at least the way you react to situations). What is this principle?
10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react. (Stephen R. Covey)

A real man doesn't love a million girls. He loves one girl in a million ways. (Anonymous)

An executive is someone who talks with visitors so the other employees can get their work done. (Anonymous)

There is always more to learn and earn. Strive for excellence, not perfection. (Jacob McAllister)

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. (John Lithgow)

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. (Henry S. Haskin)

The best thing you could do for anyone that you love, is be happy! And the very worst thing that you could do for anyone that you love, is be unhappy, and then ask them to to try to change it, when there is nothing that anybody else can do that will make you happy. (Esther Hicks)

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. (Confucius)

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. (Naguib Mahfouz)

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this. (Miguel_de_Cervantes)

A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members. (David Coblitz)

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. (Douglas MacArthur)

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. (Chinese Proverb)

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs. (Henry David Thoreau)

To receive with grace may be the greatest giving; There's no way I can separate the two... When you give to me, I give you my receiving; When you take from me, I feel so given to... (Clay Cotton)

This is true joy in life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. (George Bernard Shaw)

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. (Booth Tarkington)

All warfare is based on deception. (Confucius)

Remember that not to be happy ... is not to be grateful. (Elizabeth Carter)

The kingdom of God in the teachings of Jesus was not an apocalyptic or heavenly projection of otherworldly desire. It was driven by a desire to think that there must be a better way to live together than the present state of affairs. And it called for a change of behavior in the present on the part of individuals invested in the vision. (Burton L. Mack)

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. (Albert Camus)

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. (Elbert Hubbard)

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within. (Ramona L. Anderson)

The Constituion only gives people the right to pursue happiness; you have to catch it yourself. (Ben Franklin)[PRIDE]

If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles. (Dr. Wayne Dyer)

An honest man can never surrender an honest doubt. (Walter Malone)

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. (Anonymous)

Here's a rule of thumb that will help you: If you believe that something is good, and you do it, it benefits you. If you believe that something is bad, and you do it, it is a very detrimental experience. (Esther Hicks)

There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking. (William James)

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today. (James Dean)

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. (Confucius)

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. (Charles Schwab)

Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death! (Rosalind Russell

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate. (Elbert Hubbard)

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. (Mark B. Cohen)

Even though you would like your government to orchestrate the laws or God to orchestrate the law or somebody to give everybody one set of rules, it's not ever going to happen. Each one of you, individually, are seeking your own vibrational balance, and when you find it, then you will welcome all kinds of different beliefs, because you will never fear that the belief will take you someplace that you don't want to be. (Esther Hicks)

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. (Dalai Lama)

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. (Mary Manin Morrissey)

A flatterer is one who says things to your face that he wouldn't say behind your back. (Anonymous)

You can't give what you don't already possess. And in giving you often multiply what you have. Which is why there's always more than enough. (Dan Shafer)

I may not be perfect but parts of me are quite excellent. (Anonymous)

You think that the goal is to be over there, and we say the goal is the journey over there; the goal is the fun you have along the way on your way to over there. (Esther Hicks)

There are only two kinds of people: abnormal people and people you don't know well enough yet. (Stephan Pastis)

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. (Maya Angelou)

Life is like a river.
Just be alive and alert, and then wheresoever life leads you go with full confidence in it.... Surrender to it.... While life leads you towards the sea just be alert so that you don't miss anything. (OSHO)

Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace.... This is the miracle of surrender.
     When you accept What Is, every moment is the best moment. That is enlightenment. (Eckhart Tolle)

Human beings mostly aren't evil. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and playing guitars at people. Offer peopel a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow. (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman)

He glanced at his watch, which was designed for the kind of rich deep-sea diver who likes to know what the time is in twenty-one world capitals while he's down there. (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman)

There is a gradeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according ot the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.(Darwin)

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. (G. K. Chesterton)

Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful. (Gelett Burgess)

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. (Karl Popper)

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. (Fran Lebowitz)

I love acting. It is so much more real than life. (Oscar Wilde)

Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle. (Anonymous)

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. (Henry Steele)

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. (Sophia Loren)

If for every effect there must have been a cause then what, or who was responsible for the first cause? But to ask such questions is to leave science behind and to enter precincts still rulled by St. Augustine of Hippo and Isaac Newton the theologian. (Timothy Ferris)

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only precede from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being. (Isaac Newton)

The Motions which the Planets now have could not spring from any naturl Cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent. (Isaac Newton)

We can always tell whether our will is in what we ask by the way we live when we are not praying. (Oswald Chambers)

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. (Oscar Levant)

It is the man who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done. (Anonymous)

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced — even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. (John Keats)

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. (John Harrigan)

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. (H. L. Mencken)

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. (Dale Carnegie)

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. ( Marilyn Monroe)

It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes. (Anonymous)

The words of someone who likes to gossip are like tasty candy; they hit the person they are spoken about in the stomach. My lovelies, please remember to speak kindly about and to each other. Gossip may taste sweet as it is being said but it causes destruction in the end. (Teresa Belme)

To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. (Marilyn French

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck. (Joel Chandler Harris)

Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow. (Glen Beaman)

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool. (Frank Garbutt)

Who gets to decide what the bad thing is? Jerry and Esther watched the mother bird lay her eggs in the nest, and then the neighbor's cat ate the baby bird. Esther said "bad cat!" And the cat said, "good bird!" (Esther Hicks)

When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes from it. (Anonymous)

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

They certainly give very strange names to diseases. (Plato)

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. (Jennie Jerome Churchill)

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. (C. P. Snow)

In Plato's Phaedrus, Socrates recounts an old story of how the legendary King Thamus of Egypt had declined the god Theurth's offer to teach his subjects how to write. "What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder," says King Thalmus, "And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semlance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom, but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows."
     This remains one of the most prophetic denunciations of the perils of literacy ever enunciated — although, of course, it is thanks to the written word that we know of it. (Timothy Ferris)

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely — the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears — when you give your whole attention to it. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. (Helen Keller)

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. (Sir Winston Churchill)

The achievement of anything that you desire must be considered success, whether it is a trophy or money or relationships, or things. But if you will let your standard of success be your achievement of joy — everything else will fall easily into place. For in the finding of joy, you are finding vibrational alignment with the resources of the Universe. (Esther Hicks)

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. (Bertrand Russell)

Be good and you will be lonesome. (Mark Twain)

Lying is a skill-set.... (look up) (Mark Twain)

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, to whom are you going to speak it? (Clarence Darrow)

One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. (Franklin P. Jones)

Television is the first truly democratic culture — the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. (Clive Barnes)

You always do what you want to do.
This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice.
Only you have the power to choose for yourself. (W. Clement Stone)

Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom. (Victor Frankl)

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this; decide what you want.(Ben Stein)

The standard of success in life isn't the things. It isn't the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel. (Esther Hicks)

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. (Kahlil Gibran)

You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. (Steven D. Woodhull)

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character. (Ayn Rand)

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life, or am I mass-motivated? (Earl Nightingale)

Recent advances in the neurosciences confirm that the experience of deep empathy, with its associated glow of euphoria, shares some final common neurobiological pleasure pathways with narcotic, alcohol and cigarettes. In other words, empathy is addictive and pleasurable. (Paul Linde)

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. (Robert Orben)

If you fail to plan you plan to fail. (Anonymous)

Baby steps are for babies. If you're a grown up, jump over the damn puddle already. (Deborah Miller)

It takes a family to raise a family. If you leave it to the village, you'll end up with an idiot. (Deborah Miller)

When revieiwing your day, there are only high points and goals for tomorrow. (Deborah Miller)

Of course you play to win. Why would you play a game where there is clearly a winner with no intention of winning? Don't intend to play your best game, intend to win. It raises the bar for both you and the opponent, making you and the game better. Win. (Deborah Miller)

Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven. (Thomas Fuller)

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss. (Dick Gregory)

Telling it like it is only holds you where it is: "Damn it, I'm going to tell it like it is. I'm going to tell it like it is, because everybody wants me to tell it like it is." Tell it like it is if you like it like it is. But if you don't like it like it is, then don't tell it like it is — tell it like you want it to be. (Esther Hicks)

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. (George Bernard Shaw)

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right. (Ezra Taft Benson)

The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting. The more joyful you are, the more Well-being flows to you — and you get to choose the details of how it flows. (Esther Hicks)

When a group of students wrote a series of one-page thank-you letters every 2 weeks for 6 weeks, measurements showed that their baseline happiness levels increased by 20 percent. (RealAge)

Science says that happiness is 50 percent genetic, 10 percent circumstances, and 40 percent intentional activity (i.e., what you do). (RealAge)

Seeing the world through the rose-colored lenses of appreciation and thankfulness can help boost feelings of life satisfaction and overall well-being. And that is great for your health. (RealAge)

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. (Lord Dunsany)

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. (Robert Orben)

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. (Norman Maclean)

In the East — especially in India — I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a Banyan tree for half a day, chatting with each other. We Westerners would probably call that a waste of time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening without a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love.
     The success of love is in the loving — it is not in the result of the loving. (Mother Theresa)

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. (Willa A. Foster)

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. (Darwin)

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. (K.T. Jong)

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. (Arthur Somers Rache)

The coward threatens when he is safe. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Don't you think it's time for you to lighten up and start having more fun with all of this, and accept that you are Eternal Beings? And since you are Eternal Beings, then there's no point in rushing, because there's never going to be a time when you don't exist. (Esther Hicks)

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your mind. Put your whole soul to it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews. (William Faulkner

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people. (Doris Egan)

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. (Harry Golden)

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. (Thomas Edison)

Most parents, when they see children not terrorized by the things that terrorize them, they work very hard until they've finally got you terrorized. They teach you those irrational fears. Well-meaning, but they do just the same. (Esther Hicks)

My Father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. (Clarence B. Ketland)

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike. (Nisandeh Neta)

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. (Shakespeare)

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting — an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified. (James Redfield)

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood. (Tom Hanks)

If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through. (Chinese Proverb)

Faith is the bird that sings, when the dawn is still dark. (Rabindranath Tagore)

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. (Jan Glidewell)

A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. (Albert Einstein)

Hatred never ceases through hatred, but through love alone is healed. (Buddha)

It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference (R. Buckminster Fuller)

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one. (John Wooden)

This is courage...to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. (Euripides)

Zhuangzi expresses pity to a skull he sees lying at the side of the road. Zhuangzi laments that the skull is now dead, but the skull retorts, "How do you know it's bad to be dead?" (Chuang-tzu)

I cannot tell if what the world considers 'happiness' is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness. (Chuang-tzu)

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. (John Wooden)

If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system. (Anonymous)

There is nothing more noble or admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. (Homer)

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. (Thomas Paine)

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. (Chester Bowles)

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. (Ray Bradbury)

Anger always comes from frustrated expectations. (Elliott Larson)

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. (Andre Malraux)

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.(Somerset Maugham)

A Harvard School of Public Health study of more than 2,800 women with breast cancer found that those without close friends were 4 times more likely to die than women with 10 or more friends. (Third Age)

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once. You'll cry because time is passing too fast. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back. (Anonymous)

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. (Esther Dyson)

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. (Wendy Wasserstein)

If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel. (Benjamin Netanyahu)

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look....
     To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. (Henry David Thoreau)

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. (Newton D. Baker)

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. (Anonymous)

Make the best of where you are and do your best to line up your Energy from where you are, because any bit of struggle or any bit of regret only holds your cork under the water and doesn't allow you to connect with the Energy that would allow anything to improve. (Esther Hicks)

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. (Learned Hand)

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. (Woodrow Wilson)

This is the sign of a hard person — he is dull stupid, mechanical. He may be a good computer, but he is not a man. You do something and he reacts in a well established way. His reaction is predictable; he is a robot.
     The real man acts spontaneously. If you ask him a question, your question gets a response, not a reaction. He opens his heart to your question, exposes himself to your question, responds to it.... ( OSHO)

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor. (Don Alan Pennebaker)

The majority consists of fools, utter fools. Beware of the majority. If so many people are following, that is enough a proof that something is wrong. Truth happens to individuals, not to crowds. ( OSHO)

The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. (Anonymous)

I will always have the young man that plays peek-a-boo and loves the A,B, C song! Who will never drink, drive, sware, go to college, go in the service, care who our president is, care if your skin is black or white, if your tatoos are all over your face, if you have teeth or not, if you are homeless are not. Isn't it amazing to have a joyful life that like? (Michele Gouveia-Smith — mother of young man with severe disabilities)

If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse. (Henry Ford)

Decide today where you want to be 30 days from now and then commit to doing whatever it takes to reach that goal. I am amazed at how many people cheat on themselves by not pushing through what's uncomfortable or inconvenient to make their lives easier. You will never excel by doing only what's required! (Aristotle)

Waiting for the fish to bite
or waiting for wind to fly a kite.
Or waiting around for Friday night
or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake
or a pot to boil
or a better break
or a string of pearls
or a pair of pants
or a wig with curls
or another chance.
Everyone is just waiting. (Dr. Seuss)

When you think things are bad,
when you feel sour and blue,
when you start to get mad ...
You should do what I do!
Just tell yourself, Duckie,
you're really quite lucky!'
Some people are much more ...
Oh, ever so much more ...
Oh, muchly much-much
more unlucky than you! (Dr. Seuss)

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Love the ones who don't, just because you can. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Kiss slowly. Forgive quickly. God never said life would be easy. (Anonymous)

An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention remains in the Now, you no longer inhabit a world of problems. Challenges you may still face, but they come to you in the space of Now. (Echart Tolle)

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. (Dr. Seuss)

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
     You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And you know what you know.
     You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
Oh the places you'll go. (Dr. Seuss)

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
     Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see.
     Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! (Dr. Seuss)

We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

The question that we would ask is not, is it true, or is it undeniable? The question that we would ask is, how does it make me feel when I focus upon it? And if the answer to the question is, it doesn't make me feel very good when I focus upon it, then we would say, true or not, it does not serve you. And if you will activate a different part of your vibration — the "truth" will shift. (Esther Hicks)

In 2004 the Hubble telescoope, over a period of 11 days (400 complete orbits), collected light from a 'blank' spot in the sky that was no larger than a grain of sand held at arm's length and detected the presence of over 11,000 galaxies of stars, each with more than 100 billion stars. (It became known as the Ultra Deep Field 47 billion light years from earth racing away from us at nearly the speed of light.) There are over 100 billion galaxies in our universe. (see Hubble Ultra Deep Field 3-D)

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, (Abraham Lincoln)

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. (Laura Teresa Marquez)

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present — love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure — the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth. (Sarah Ban Breathnach)

Give me to ease my tortured mind,
Lend to my woes a patient ear;
And let me, if I may not find
A friend to help — find one to hear. (George Crabbe)

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason. (Paul P. Parker)

Regarded the occurrence of particular phenomenon, not as evidence of the supernatural but more properly the evidence of nature incompletely incomprehended (Alan Moore)

The novelist John Gardner suggested that the true search in life is for one's "necessary fire."

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs. (Mignon McLaughlin)

When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.(Stephen W. Hawking)

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. (Samuel Johnson)

Never underestimate the power of flattery. And when it comes to royalty, one should apply it with a trowel. (Benjamin Disraeli)

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day. (Dean Martin)

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. (Sam Keen)

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it, The more things you do, the more you can do. (Lucille Ball)

Continuing to tell stories of shortage only continues to contradict your desire for abundance, and you cannot have it both ways: You cannot focus upon unwanted and receive wanted. You cannot focus upon stories about money that make you feel uncomfortable and allow into your experience what makes you feel comfortable. A different story will bring different results: My thoughts are the basis for the attraction of all things that I consider to be good, which includes enough money, and health, for my comfort and joy. (Esther Hicks)

Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage. (Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby)

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. (Jane Howard)

Death is the ultimate healing for those whose faith is in God (Anonymous)

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. (Scott Adams)

If you decide to make someone the enemy and you're pushing very hard against them, you don't affect them at all, but you disconnect yourself from the Stream. If someone cheats you, they cannot diminish your experience. They only diminish their experience. You cannot be diminished by someone cheating you unless you get all upset about being cheated and push against them and use that as your excuse to disconnect from the Stream. (Esther Hicks)

Wagner's music is better than it sounds. (Bill Nye, quoted in Mark Twain's autobiography)

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking only to learn that it is God shaking them. (Charles West)

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. (Theodore Rubin)

When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there's usually less resistance within you than when you talk about what you want and how you're going to get it. When you pose questions you don't have answers for, like how, where, when, who, it sets up a contradictory vibration that slows everything down. (Esther Hicks)

We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. (Victor Frankl)

Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answers to its problems and to fulfill the task which it constantly sets for each individual. (Victor Frankl)

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. (John Stuart Mill)

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. (Voltaire)

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.... (Nelson Boswell)

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. (Dave Barry)

To stay active as you age, you must have a passion about life. Your life-prolonging activity must extend beyond the physical to passions of the mind and heart. The phrase "use it, or lose it" applies to the faculties of hearing, seeing, feeling, and reasoning as well as physical movement. (thirdage.com)

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Open your eyes, look within. Are You satisfied with the life you're living? (Bob Marley)

The perfect creative stance is satisfaction where I am, and eagerness for more. (Esther Hicks)

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. (Margaret Thatcher)

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future. (Albert Einstein)

An inheritance is what you leave for someone; a legacy is what you leave in someone. (Don Patterson)

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. (Harry Truman)

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.(A.W. Tozer)

It is possible to walk through the darkness without walking in the darkness. (Oswald Chambers)

Whenever Depression knocks on the door of my heart, I send Hopefulness to answer the door. (Don Huntington)

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. (Vince Lombardi)

There's no end to what we can do if we don't insist on getting credit for it. (Henry Oliver)

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we feel entitled to demand of it — this is a very hard lesson. (Bruce Cotton)

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. (Alexander Graham Bell)

A mind at peace, a mind focused on not harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe. (Anonymous)

Nothing is more debilitating than to care about something you can't do anything about. And you can't do anything about your adult children. You can want better for them, and maybe even begin to provide something for them, but in the long run, you cannot do anything about someone else's vibration other than hold them in the best light you can, mentally, and then project that to them. And sometimes, distance makes that much more possible than being up close to them. (Esther Hicks)

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die. (Gellert)

Take care of your of your life and the Lord will take of your death. (George Whitefield)

The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back. (Franklin P. Jones)

Actions lie louder than words. (Carolyn Wells)

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. (Francois la Rochefoucauld)

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. (Denis Waitley)

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on. (Anonymous)

Ecstasy is our very nature; not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable. That's why you look so tired, because misery is really hard work; to maintain it is really difficult, because you are doing something against nature. (OSHO)

Disgust is a negative emotion but it can have a positive effect. When are you going to be sick and tired of being sick and tired? (Lisa Bass)

Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. (Anonymous)

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. (John Quincy Adams)

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. (P. J. O'Rourke)

Rather than imagining that mine is a solo part; the little tune of my life becomes part of a vast choral production that the Universe has been singing since our primitive ancestors first looked up towards the heavens and began to realize that their lives were part of a symphony directed by some Cosmic Composer. (Don Huntington)

The truth is still the truth, no matter what you choose to believe. (Jeffrey Howard)

If you feel like you don't have what you want, start by being immensely grateful for what you already have and then watch what happens... (Jeffrey Howard)

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive. (Harold Whitman)

The Great Law of the Universe, however, is just this — that what you think in your mind you will produce in your experience. As Within — So Without. You cannot think one thing and produce another.(Emmet Fox)

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much — those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else. (Cyrus H. K Curtis)

All great things are only a number of small things that have carefully been collected together. (Anonymous)

It is your rules that make unlawful beings. You would get along better if you would just trust each other to treat each other appropriately, but you don't. So you keep making laws — until you make criminals of everyone. (Esther Hicks)

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. (Benjamin Disraeli)

No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism. (V.I. Klassen)

To dare, is to lose one's footing temporarily. To not dare, is to lose oneself. (Soren Kierkegaard)

The average elm tree has six million leaves. (Francis Chan)

the writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit — for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature. (John Steinbeck)

Ever' body says words different. Arkansas folks says 'em different and Oklahomy folks says 'em different. And we seen a lady from Massachusetts an' she said 'em differentest o all. Couln't hardly make out what she was sayin'. (John Steinbeck)

Now that you've cleaned up your lives by following the truth, love one another as if your lives depended on it. (1 Peter 1:22 MSG)

Our work as God's servants gets validated — or not — in the details. (1 Cor. 6:4 MSG)

What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason. (Voltaire)

The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny. (Paul G. Thomas)

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. (William G. McAdoo)

There are people in this world who look very official while they are doing what they are doing because they don't know what they are doing. Because if you know what you are doing then you don't have to look like you know what you are doing because it comes naturally. (Frankie Mac)

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. (Vince Lombardi)

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. (John Ruskin)

A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements. (H.S.M. Burns)

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME. (Franklin Field)

There is no better way to earn money than to do the things that you love to do. Money can flow into your experience through endless avenues. It is not the choice of the craft that limits the money that flows — but only your attitude toward money. (Esther Hicks)

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge. (Gerald G. Jampolsky)

A third of pet-owning married women said their pets are better listeners than their husbands, according to an Associated Press-Petside.com poll released Wednesday. Eighteen percent of pet-owning married men said their pets are better listeners than their wives. (Sue Manning)

For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death. (Bhagavad Gita)

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence. (Katherine Anne Porter)

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. (Steve Jobs)

We need not think alike to love alike. (Francis David)

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away. (Michael W. Smith)

Forgive, daily, those who caused the wounds that keep you from wholeness. (Philip Yancey)

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. (Errol Flynn) [FINANCE]

Poetry is the ... form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless. (Wes 'Scoop' Nisker)

Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth. (Orson Scott Card)

There is no career more important than parenting. There is no human relationship with such potential for great achievement and awful destructiveness, and despite all the experts who write about it, no one has the slightest idea whether any decision will be right or best or even non-horrible for any particular child. It is a job that simply cannot be done right. (Orson Scott Card)

I will go before you and make the rough places smooth; I will shatter the gates of bronze and cut through the iron bars and I will give you treasures of darkness and hidden wealth in secret places; so you will know that it is I the Lord, the God of Israel who calls you by your name. (Isaiah 4 5:2,3)

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. (Nelson Mandela)

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. (William Blake)

If one will advance in the direction of one's dreams one will meet with success unexpected in common hours. (Henry David Thoreau)

The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am. (Robert Bierstedt)

If you want to know what is significant, you have to stop thinking about success. (William Gaudinier)

Once bitten by a snake, some are scared all their life at the mere sight of a rope. (Chinese Proverb)

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. (Honore De Balzac)

Breathes there a human with soul so dead who likes bureaucracy? (Annie G.)

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work. (Albert Einstein)

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

There is so much to be learned from those who are not "normal." I am so much more than I would have been without my "special" kids! (Cindy Scarborough)

Act even when you don't want to. Sometimes you just need to do it. The purpose and the passion will come once you're engaged. (Lisa Oz)

Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation. (Orison Swett Marden)

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.(Og Mandino)

Your choices of action may be limited — but your choices of thought are not. (Esther Hicks)

The world is not dialectical — it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil. (Jean Baudrillard)

I think TV is very educational. Every time someone turns on a TV, I go in the other room and read. (Groucho Marx)

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. (Groucho Marx)

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. (George Bernard Shaw)

More than 70 percent of Americans live from paycheck to paycheck. (Money Management International)

It is generally a good idea to do what you would do if you didn't think it was too late. (Robert Brault)

Reward is no part of the definition of duty. (Robert Brault)

Most people have a hard time delegating, or even wanting to delegate, because you have been justifying your existence through your hard work, and you equate success with struggle; you equate results with struggle. And so, you sort of wear your struggle like a badge of honor. And all of that is opposite of allowing the Well-being. The only thing that ever matters in success or achievement is your achieving the things that you want to achieve. So if you are setting standards and you're feeling uncomfortable about the standards that you've set, tweak the standards back a little bit. Ratchet it back a notch. Give yourself a break. Give yourself the benefit of the doubt. Lighten up. Be easier. Go slower. Take it easy. Have more fun. Love yourself more. Laugh more. Appreciate more. All is well. You can't get it wrong. You never get it done. (Esther Hicks)

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity. (Joseph Sugarman)

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political ideas. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. (Aldous Huxley)

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. (David Russell)

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town. (George Carlin)

The intelligent want self-control; children want candy. (Rumi)

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours — it is an amazing journey — and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins. (Bob Moawad)

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. (Carl Sagan)

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. (Carl Sagan)

The multitude of books is making us ignorant. (Voltaire)

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. (Abraham J. Heschel)

God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance. (Abraham J. Heschel)

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. (Abraham J. Heschel)

Life without commitment is not worth living. (Abraham J. Heschel)

Above all, the prophets remind us of the moral state of a people: Few are guilty, but all are responsible. (Abraham J. Heschel)

Remember that there is a meaning beyond absurdity. Be sure that every little deed counts, that every word has power. Never forget that you can still do your share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and frustrations and disappointments. (Abraham J. Heschel)

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. (Abraham J. Heschel)

The Almighty has not created the universe that we may have opportunities to satisfy our greed, envy and ambition. (Abraham J. Heschel)

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments. (Abraham J. Heschel)

If the man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man but would deteriorate the cat. (Mark Twain)

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Once you gain control over the thoughts you think, your sense of injustice will subside and will be replaced with the exuberance for life and the zest to create that you were born with. (Esther Hicks)

Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools speak because they have to say something. (Plato)

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. (James Gordon)

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. (Henry Ward Beecher)

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends. (Frank Crane)

Knowledge makes us proud of ourselves, while love makes us helpful to others. In fact, people who think they know so much don't know anything at all. (1 Cor. 8:1b-2 CEV)

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be. (Henry David Thoreau)

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. (Alfred Tennyson)

Lonliness is a theif of contentment, cohorting with the voices within to create isolation in a crowd. Contentment is its nemesis, frolicking in the depths of the heart, warding off the day's feeble attempt to falter us. (Andrea Stuart)

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. (Stephen W. Hawking)

People will buy anything that is one to a customer. Sinclair Lewis)

A woman's heart should be so lost in God that a man needs to seek Him in order to find her. (Anonymous)

Zen Buddhist to a hotdog vendor: "Make me one with everything." (Anonymous)

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. (John Ruskin)

I couldn't live with myself any longer. And in this a question arose without an answer: who is the 'I' that cannot live with the self? What is the self? I felt drawn into a void. I didn't know at the time that what really happened was the mind-made self, with its heaviness, its problems, that lives between the unsatisfying past and the fearful future, collapsed. It dissolved. The next morning I woke up and everything was so peaceful. The peace was there because there was no self. Just a sense of presence or "beingness," just observing and watching. (Echart Tolle)

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. (Arthur Golden)

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. Robert Fulghum)

Never eat more than you can lift. (Miss Piggy)

When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. The realm of Being, which had been obscured by the mind, then opens up. Suddenly, a great stillness arises within you, an unfathomable sense of peace. And within that peace, there is great joy. And within that joy, there is love. And at the innermost core, there is the sacred, the immeasurable. That which cannot be named. (Echart Tolle)

As your world or your government, or individuals within your government, make decisions about what is better for you, and as they try to protect you from every possible potential experience, your lives become rather cumbersome, don't they? (Esther Hicks)

The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose. (Rick Shuman)

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands. (Jewish Proverb)

Don't be too proud if you are one in a million, because in New York City there are 11 of you. (Anonymous)

The most important decision you'll ever make is how to spend the present moment! (Gaurav)

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road,to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. (Victor Hugo)

Begin doing what you want to do, now! We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand — and melting like a snowflake. (Marie Beyon Ray)

Heaven means to be one with God. (Confucius)

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art. (Benjamin Disraeli)

Life is like a game of tennis; the player who serves well seldom loses. (Anonymous)

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking. (Ernest Renan)

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality. (Samuel Johnson)

God's in His Heaven; All's right with the world. (Robert Browning)

Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate
Whose table once a
Guest but not
The second time is set.
   Whose crumbs the crows inspect
And with ironic caw
Flap past it to the
Farmer's Corn —
Men eat of it and die. (Emily Dickenson)

The major block to compassion is the judgment in our minds. Judgment is the mind's primary tool of separation. (Diane Berke)

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. (Isaac Asimov)

People will not compete with you if you don't make much of your own cleverness. (Thomas Cleary)

Maintain Universal Flow. When someone gives, it is an act of generosity to receive. For in the giving there is something gained. (Joan Laidig Brady)

I'm still an atheist, thank God. (Luis Bunuel)

Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past. (Lily Tomlin)

Resentment is the number one blockade to spiritual growth. (Norman Vincent Peale)

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time. (Margaret Bonnano)

It is never too late to forgive. But you can forgive too soon. I am especially wary of what I call "saintly forgiveness." Premature forgiveness is common among people who avoid conflict. They're afraid of their own anger and the anger of others. But their forgiveness is false. Their anger goes underground. (Robert Karen)

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. (Thomas Wolfe)

Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave. (Augustine J. Duganne)

To love another person is to help them love God. (Soren Kierkegaard)

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. (Catherine Ponder)

Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time. (Sara Paddison)

Don't ask the person, or people, that helped you to define what you want to become what you want so that you can have what you want. Instead, let them be the Step One part of it (the asking part). Use your willpower and your decision to focus upon what you want — and then the Universe will bring you what you want. (Esther Hicks)

We are not human beings going through a temporary spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings going through a temporary human experience. (Anonymous)

Pain of discipline, pain of regret, take your pick. (Tim O'Neil)

Action is the antidote of despair. (Joan Baez)

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. (Alden Nowlan)

We have a hunger of the mind. We ask for all of the knowledge around us and the more we get, the more we desire. (Maria Mitchell)

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. (Maria Mitchell)

Sadism, dictatorship, or any form of evil, is the consequence of a man's evasion of reality. A consequence of his failure to think. (Ayn Rand)

GOD moves in a mysterious way,
     His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
     And rides upon the storm. (William Cowper)

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. (Abraham Lincoln)

A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended. (Evan Esar)

If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. (George Orwell)

Love, kindness, and generosity would still be good things in a world where no religions existed. (Howard Garcia)

Imagine a sentient puddle who wakes up one morning and thinks, "This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it! (Douglas Adams)

Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die. (John Masefield)

When kids think Puccini is a kind of Pizza clearly not enough Art is taught in our schools. (Anonymous)

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be.
     Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, "This I am today; that I will be tomorrow." (Louis L'Amour)

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind. (Sathya Sai Baba)

A Universal Intelligence is in all matter and continually gives to it all its properties and action, thus maintaining it in existence. (Daniel David Palmer)

Silence is exhilarating at first — as noise is — but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep. (Edward Hoagland)

The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him. (Pius XII)

A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part. (Nisargadatta Maharaj)

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. (Bertrand Russell)

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong. (Bill Vaughan)

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. (Elbert Hubbard)

There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. Every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so — now — knowing all that you know from where you now stand, now what do you want? The answers are now coming forth to you. Go forth in joy, and get on with it. (Esther Hicks)

Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience. Taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them. (Byron Katie)

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. (Mignon McLaughlin)

I just need to do something new... I've got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I'm ready to start pushing some buttons. (Cecelia Ahern)

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

One who is mostly an observer thrives in good times but suffers in bad times because what he is observing is already vibrating, and as he observes it, he includes it in his vibrational countenance. As he includes it, the Universe accepts that as his point of attraction and gives him more of it. So the better it gets the better it gets. Or the worse it gets the worse it gets. While one who is a visionary thrives in all times. (Esther Hicks)

Kindness is a gift that nurtures our souls, soothes our edges, and awakens our hearts to beauty. (Flavia Weedn)

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

Growth is the only evidence of life. (John Henry Newman)

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world — that is the myth of the atomic age — as in being able to remake ourselves. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)

If you don't meet resistance with resistance, it dissipates dramatically. It just softens. Try it! Next time somebody says to you, "I'm right, and you're wrong," say, "Pfftt, you're right. You are right. You're right." And mean it. In other words, don't mock them. Don't be sarcastic. "You're right." And then watch how, all of a sudden, their legs almost go right out from under them. They don't have the energy to blast you, because you just took the fuel away from the fire. (Esther Hicks)

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. (Maya Angelou)

When that which is god — or that which is that which man wants to call "God" — is being understood by man, man has to translate it into the format he understands. But this Energy — this Source that man is giving the label of "God", cannot be quantified in anything that man understands. And as man attempts to do it, the distortions are enormous. (Esther Hicks)

A man with a toothache can never be in love. (Sigmund Freud)

Speak that thing which is not as if it were. Every morning speak the favor of God over your life. (Jerry Hanoum)

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. (Edith Sitwell)

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? (Dick Clark)

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it. (Thornton T. Munger)

Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set. (Anonymous)

It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living. (Eric Hoffer)

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss — an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. — is sure to be noticed. (Soren Kierkegaard)

Mediocrity is excellence to the mediocre. (Anonymous)

Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love. (Vince Lombardi)

Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire. (Chinese proverb)

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. (Theodore I. Rubin)

You can judge a man by what he laughs at. (Anonymous)

It's not your work to make anything happen. It's your work to dream it and let it happen. (Esther Hicks)

Your right is to action alone; Never to its fruits at any time. Never should the fruits of your action be your motive; Never let there be attachment to inaction in you. (Bhagavad Gita)

Study it all (all sacred texts), savor it all, like bees savor the nectar from many flowers. (Patanjali)

Ah Christ, that it were possible
For one short hour to see
The souls we loved, that they might tell us
What and where they be. (Alfred Tennyson)

You're picky about the car you drive. You're picky about what you wear. You're picky about what you put in your mouth. We want you to be pickier about what you think. (Esther Hicks)

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause. (P. J. O'Rourke)

God's servant must not be argumentative, but a gentle listener and a teacher who keeps cool, working firmly but patiently with those who refuse to obey. (2 Tim. 2:24)

Pray especially for rulers and their governments to rule well so we can be quietly about our business of living simply, in humble contemplation. This is the way our Savior God wants us to live. (1 Timothy 2:2-3 MSG) [POLITICS]

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem. (Malcolm Forbes)

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk being called sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk showing your true self.
To place your ideas and your dreams before them is to risk being called naive.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair,
and to try is to risk failure.
     But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. Chained by their certitudes, they are a slave, they've forfeited their freedom.
     Only the person who risks is truly free. (Dr. Leo Buscaglia)

The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea — massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. (Gene Spafford)

Be alert. If you see your friend going wrong, correct him. If he responds, forgive him. Even if it's personal against you and repeated seven times through the day, and seven times he says, 'I'm sorry, I won't do it again,' forgive him. (Matthew 17:3-4 MSG)

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. (Albert Einstein)

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength. (August Wilson)

If you walk around with your nose in the air, you're going to end up flat on your face. But if you're content to be simply yourself, you will become more than yourself. (Luke 14:11 MSG)

When your heart is singing, you are allowing Well-being. When you are appreciating, you are allowing Well-being. When you are yelling at somebody, you're not. When you're feeling insecure, you're not. When you're frustrated, you're not. (Esther Hicks)

Formula for Success... and then some.

The top people do what's expected of them, and then some.
They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some.
They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some.
They are good friends to their friends, and then some.
They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some.
And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some;
then the Lord pays in full, and then some. (Anonymous)

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things. (Bruce Barton)

The most important thing that you can teach your children is that Well-being abounds. And that Well-being is naturally flowing to them. And that if they will relax and reach for thoughts that feel good, and do their best to appreciate, then they will be less likely to keep the Well-being away, and more likely to allow it to flow into their experience. Teach them the art of allowing. (Esther Hicks)

Your eye is a lamp, lighting up your whole body. If you live wide-eyed in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light. (Luke 11:34a MSG)

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. (C.S. Lewis)

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. (D.H. Lawrence)

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. (Angela Monet)

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. (Robert H. Schuller)

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. (Charles Mackay)

A million people could be pushing against you, and it would not negatively affect you unless you push back. They are affecting what happens in their experience. They are affecting their point of attraction — but it does not affect you unless you push against them. (Esther Hicks)

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards. (Ben Franklin)

Confronted again with pictures of flag-draped coffins and mutilated bodies, with the sounds of random gunfire and angry chants, the world had to readjust to the fact that not every problem is solvable, that the global tide of peace is not inexorable, and that progress does not inevitably make civilizations more civilized. (Time)[POLITICS]"

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish. (Robert Jackson)

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall. (Anonymous)

Friends are the Family we choose for ourselves. (Anonymous)

So we're not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace. These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us. There's far more here than meets the eye. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can't see now will last forever. (2 Corinthians 4:16 MSG)

The one who fears something the most is the one who has it most activated in their vibration. And so, it is logical that they would experience it. (Esther Hicks)

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits. (Studs Terkel)

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. (Louisa May Alcott)

A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130. (Ernest Leroy Boyer)

A man who lacks imagination has no wings. (Mohammad Ali)

Isolation in the self, inability to go out of oneself to others, would mean incapacity for any form of self-transcendence. To be thus the prisoner of one's own selfhood is, in fact, to be in hell. (Thomas Merton)

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. (Epictetus)[PRIDE]"

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. (Bishop Westcott)

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. (Ben Franklin)[PRIDE]

Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life — for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them. (Laura Teresa Marquez)

Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it. (Hartman Rector, Jr.)[PRIDE]

We sometimes tend to think we know all we need to know to answer these kinds of questions — but sometimes our humble hearts can help us more than our proud minds. We never really know enough until we recognize that God alone knows it all. (1 Cor. 8:1 MSG)

For this is Wisdom; to love, to live
     To take what fate, or the Gods may give.
To ask no question, to make no prayer,
     To kiss the lips and caress the hair,
Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow
     To have, to hold and — in time, let go! (Laurence Hope)

But knowing isn't everything. If it becomes everything, some people end up as know-it-alls who treat others as know-nothings. Real knowledge isn't that insensitive. (1 Cor. 8:7 (partial) MSG)

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. (C. S. Lewis)[HUMILITY]

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits; on his manhood; he has gained the facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance. (Og Mandino)

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. (Winnie the Pooh)

And there are those who might say, "Oh, you're not facing the fact." And we say, we would never face any fact that was taking us to a place we don't want to be. (Esther Hicks)

There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them. (Casey Stengel)

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. (Will Rogers)

Tomorrow I will certainly stop procrastinating. (Don Huntington)

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. (Dale Carnegie)

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you. (C. S. Lewis)

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. (Albert Camus)

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. (Maxwell Maltz)

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. Norman Vincent Peale)

The more you know the less you need to say. (Jim Rohn)

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly. (Max Nordau)

Create the kind of self you will be happy to live with all your life. (Golda Meir)

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty,' it's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success. (Bobbe Sommer)

Unfortunately, we know the experience against miracles to be uniform only if we know that all reports of them are false. And we can know all the reports to be false only if we know already that miracles have never occurred. In fact, we are arguing in a circle.(C. S. Lewis)

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. (Les Brown)

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all.
You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. (Maxwell Maltz)

Scripture reassures us, "No one who trusts God like this — heart and soul — will ever regret it." It's exactly the same no matter what a person's religious background may be: the same God for all of us, acting the same incredibly generous way to everyone who calls out for help. "Everyone who calls, 'Help, God!' gets help." (Romans 10:11-13, MSG Translation)

It is not necessary to suffer in order to give birth to desire. But when you have suffered and you have given birth to desire, so what? You've got a desire. Turn your attention to the desire. Think about where you're going and never mind where you've been. Don't spend any more time justifying any of that stuff (Esther Hicks)

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. (Vic Gold)

Dancing in the rain isn't something that most of us are born knowing how to do. We learn it. We learn it from others; we learn it from Life. The more we dance, the better we get at it. (BJ Gallagher)

God sets right all who welcome his action and enter into it, both those who follow our religious system and those who have never heard of our religion. (Romans 3:29-30 MSG)

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. (Josh Billings)

I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get moldy, and then call them curses. (Henry Ward Beecher)

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. (Tom Krause)

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor. (Eric Hoffer)

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)[PURPOSE]

I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish. (Anonymous)

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. (Dudley Field Malone)

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. (Steve Jobs)

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be. (Karen Ravn)

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. (Meridel Le Sueur)

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. (Thomas Jefferson)

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny. (Frederick Speakman)

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity. (Alberta Flanders)

The government is the best that governs the least. (Thomas Paine)

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity. (Michel de Montaigne)

Don't look for shortcuts to God. The market is flooded with surefire, easygoing formulas for a successful life that can be practiced in your spare time. Don't fall for that stuff, even though crowds of people do. The way to life — to God! — is vigorous and requires total attention. (Matthew 17:13-14 MSG)

Don't bargain with God. Be direct. Ask for what you need. (Matthew 7:7) MSG)

Don't pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults — unless, of course, you want the same treatment. That critical spirit has a way of boomeranging. (Matthew 7:1 MSG)

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. (Mother Theresa) [IMPORTANCE SIGNIFICANCE]

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. (Eric Hoffer)

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever. (Thomas Secker)

You're familiar with the command to the ancients, 'Do not murder.' I'm telling you that anyone who is so much as angry with a brother or sister is guilty of murder. Carelessly call a brother 'idiot!' and you just might find yourself hauled into court. Thoughtlessly yell 'stupid!' at a sister and you are on the brink of hellfire. The simple moral fact is that words kill. (Matt 5:21-22 MSG)

You're blessed when you get your inside world — your mind and heart — put right. Then you can see God in the outside world. (Matthew 5:8) MSG)

Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities — those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness. (Thich Nhat Hanh)

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. (Danny Thomas)

American is a very difficult language mixed with English. (Anonymous)

Do your little bit of good where you are;
it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. (Archbishop Desmond Tutu)

He's been disrupting all our securities (Jerry Hanoum)

He's not willing not to touch you. The minute you step out He begins to touch you. He's come to set the captives free. (Jerry Hanoum)

We're connecting with God and with each other. (Jerry Hanoum)

We think we are right because we are doing right. (Jerry Hanoum)

We chase the things of God rather than God (Jerry Hanoum)

To believe in God and to belive God are two different things (Jerry Hanoum)

Who among you fears the LORD?
Whoever walks in deep darkness,
without light,
should trust in the name of the LORD
and rely on his God. (Isaiah 50:10)

Look up Casting Crowns' lyrics "...how far the East is from the West."

Faith suspends judgment by giving us eternal perspective. (Rodney Griffith)

Anybody who has ever been to any of the higher dimensions will know that they're a pretty nasty heathen lot up there who should just be smashed and done in, and would be too, if anyone could work out a way of firing missiles at right angles to reality. (Douglas Adams)

The fear of the Lord is the fountain of life. (Prov. 10:11)

We no longer fear God; we are afraid of God (Ron Reagan)

Those are not to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths which are the bonds of human society can have no hold upon the atheist. (John Locke)

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves. And we are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with God. (Thomas Merton)

Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat, for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags (Prov. 12:20-21).

Adultery is not about romance or sex, but is about how little we mean to each other. (Anonymous)

We're in the third generation of parents who do not know how to parent. (Commander Jackie Salvation Army)

For everything this disease has taken it has given something better in return. (Michael J. Fox)

You can choose to remain in the shallow end of the pool or you can go into the ocean (Christopher Reeves)

If God doesn't take my illness away what good is He? God gave me this disease for some reasons
      These have been the best years of our marriage. (ALS sufferer)

In those times when I cannot find God I rest in the assurance that He is able to find me (Anonymous)

Hope is faith holding its hands out in the dark (Anonymous)

"Hope is a thing with feathers." Hope defies gravity — it goes counter to the normal processes of the world. (Dan Sturdivant)

Sweet William..., we made fun of everything we did. We made fun of ourselves. We laughed and had fun with life. (Hugh Mayocco)

My friend, I think you are in the final lap. But you are still in first place.
      (And later) Congratulations! you won! (Dr. Hugh Mayocco re Bill Bristow)

It isn't as important for a child to finish a book as it is to want to finish a book. (Bill Bristow)

Love will save us in the end. Love will gather us together. (Fr. Ron)

What will save us in the end is not what we said or thought but how we lived with each other. (Fr. Ron)

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever. (Anonymous)

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty. (Leo Rosten)

I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane. (Waylon Jennings)

A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
      am I or are the others crazy? (Albert Einstein)

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. (Thomas J. Peters)

Just this morning it came to me that all my needs are met. I listed the things that would make me happy to do today and then transformed my to do list and my day into a song! (Patricia Hamilton)

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong. (G. K. Chesterton)

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them. (Samuel McChord Crothers)

We would never do anything that didn't make our heart sing!... And so you say, "But that choice doesn't seem to be there. There's this choice that doesn't make my heart sing, or sort of staying where I am. So what should I do?" And we say, we'd hang around and wait for something that makes our heart sing — and then we'd jump in with all four feet. (Esther Hicks)

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. (Johann Lavater)

An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single. (Charlotte Bingham)

Leadership ... the ability to see what no one else sees, to listen when others talk and the ability to be optimistic when others are pessimistic. (George W. Cummings)

It is what we think we know already that prevents us from learning. (Claude Bernard)

I believe in the Ten Commandments. The first one, "I am the Lord thy God." is a good one, if it isn't said by the wrong people (Bob Dylan)

It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty, purposeless lives; for when you live as if you'll live forever, it becomes too easy to postpone the things you know that you must do. (Elizabeth Kubler Ross)

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. (Bill Watterson)

Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. (Kahlil Gibran)

Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in too much. (Alfred Stuart, Jr.)

We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others. (Mignon McLaughlin)

Nothing is more useless and frustrating than trying to make sense of life without first making sense of oneself. (Vernon Howard)

The wise accumulate wisdom;
     fools get stupider by the day. (Proverbs 14:24)

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. (William Cobbett)

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. (Victor Frankl)

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. (Thomas Edison)

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. (Orison Swett Marden)

To fight fear, act. To increase fear, wait, put off, postpone. (David Joseph Schwartz)

If Yosemite is a cathedral, is there any problem with playing Bingo in the fellowship hall? (Peter Hoss)

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. (Dwight L. Moody)

If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had. (I. F. Stone)

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. (Mary Manin Morrissey)

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image. (Denis Waitley)

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future. (Marilyn Ferguson)

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. (Bishop Mandell Creighton)

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. (J.M. Power)

It really doesn't matter how many classes you attend, what you read or what you say.If you are not willing to do something different, nothing will change. (Marie Kane and Kay Hunt; 'Heart Thoughts.)

Ideas without action are worthless. (Helen Keller)

If you put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. (Anonymous)

Rule your mind or it will rule you. (Horace)

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. (Author Unknown)

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. (William James)

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism — this is the art of living. (Jean De La Fontaine)

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. (Woodrow Wyatt)

All of us are watchers — of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway — but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing (Peter M. Leschak)

He who sings, frightens away all his ills. (Traditional Saying)

Emotionally looking back at 2009 and thinking that this may well have been the worst year of my life. Upon reflection, I realized there are a good half-dozen reasons as to why this may have been the BEST year of my life. And each of those great moments was a direct result of having overcome the bad ones. (David A. York)

Bitterness has a shelf life longer than a twinkie. (Anonymous)

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege. (Unknown)

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. (Nicholas Negroponte)

It is true that you can have anything in life that you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want. (Zig Ziglar)

If you have a good enough reason, you will get results. If you have a good enough reason, you'll do almost anything. You have to find that reason. (Anonymous)

Even too much sunshine can be devastating, while only with rain can growth occur. Accept both as part of the growing process in the garden of life. (Donald S. Neviaser)

The one thing you still have is your life and the freedom to choose. Failure in life is inevitable, and you must fail in life unless you live your life so cautiously that your life is not worth living at all, and thus living the greatest failure of all. (JK Rowling)

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. (Lee Iacocca)

When you focus on something negative, whether it be a complaint or problem you have, you attract negative energy to you. If you want to be healthy, surround yourself with healthy people and think of yourself as healthy, and you will gravitate towards health. If you want less negative stress in your life, then seek balanced individuals who will not be energy vampires. (Michael Pound)

Stress is not what happens to us. It's our response to what happens. And response is something we can choose. (Maureen Killoran)

I've been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It's entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here. Suppress it! You don't know the horrible aspects of war. I've been through two wars and I know. I've seen cities and homes in ashes. I've seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is Hell! (William Tecumseh Sherman), to the graduating class of the Michigan Military Academy, June 19, 1879)

You remember when Tiger Woods' first mistress was getting photographed? I'm looking for the sunglasses she wore. (Anonymous)

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often. (Alexi Sayle)

Your hands are tied in action, but your hands are not tied in imagination — and everything springs forth from the imagination. Everything. (Esther Hicks)

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

No wise man ever wished to be younger. (Jonathan Swift)

I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. (Artemus Ward)

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. (Galileo Galilei)

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. (Mother Theresa)

Speak those things that are not as though they were. (Jerry Hanoum)

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots. (Thomas Sewell)

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. (J. C. Watts)

The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. (Thomas H. Huxley)

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world. (Thomas Shadwell)

Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you're afraid to try. (Mrs. Cunningham)

If you know that all is well, you know all you need to know. And if you know life is supposed to be fun, you know more than almost anybody else knows. And if you know that the way you feel is your indicator of how connected you are to Source, then you know that which only a handful of Deliberate Creators, respective to the total population, really know. (Esther Hicks)

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. (Abraham Lincoln)

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. (G. K. Chesterton)

When you drive around the city and come to a red light or a stop sign, you can just sit back and make use of these twenty or thirty seconds to relax — to breathe in, breathe out, and enjoy arriving in the present moment. There are many things like that we can do. (Thich Nhat Hanh)

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. (William M. Thackeray)

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. (Margaret Thatcher)

The perfect creative stance is satisfaction where I am, and eagerness for more. (Esther Hicks)

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors. (W. Eugene Smith)

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

Once you've decided that you want something, the opposite of it is going to be very much a part of your awareness too. (Esther Hicks)

Truth is an agreed upon way of lying. (Anonymous)

The unexamined life is not worth living. (Socrates)

If you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively. (Mel Brooks)

Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for — sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm .... One of the greatest sounds of them all — and to me it is a sound — is utter, complete silence. (Andre Kostelanetz)

Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation. (James Thurber)

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then your low words will be charged with dynamite. (Elbert Hubbard)

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. (Katharine Hepburn)

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. (Voltaire)

Tradition inspires; traditionism slays. (Don Huntington)

The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started. (Dawson Trotman)

That judging, vengeful God is manufactured from humans' place of deepest despair. (Esther Hicks)

With brick upon brick, we wall ourselves in
     (Because, Lord, we're not like those "others")
Till one day we see that we've not kept out sin
     But walled out our sisters and brothers. (Gustafson)

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. (Mary Wilson Little)

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. (Akhenaton)

Success is not being done; not being complete. Success is still dreaming and feeling positive in the unfolding. (Esther Hicks)

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Make a decision of what you want, give your attention there, find the feeling place of it — and you're there instantly. There is no reason for you to suffer or struggle your way to or through anything. (Esther Hicks)

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two (George Herbert)

Expectations are premeditated resentment. (Anonymous)

To offer no resistance to life (acceptance) is to be in a state of grace, ease and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being a certain way, good or bad.... (Echart Tolle)

Throughout life we meet people who we feel comfortable with. We may pick one and decide to put them before the others. Sometimes this relationship lasts a long time, and sometimes they take an unexpected and unfavorable turn.
      However, every so often, you come across a person who beyond physical attraction you feel a deep connection with, and something magical happens.
     You find yourself spending most of your time secretly hoping that the other person is feeling the same love.
     Once this emotion is revealed, you have the potential of forming a bond immeasurable by mane.
     A unification so strong that it prevails over all of life's tribulations.
     It is the key to an eternal relationship. (Michael A. Pound)

Let your joy scream across the pain. (Elizabeth Wilder)

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. (Jim Rohn)

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)

No outward thing — nothing, nobody from without — can hurt me inside, psychologically. I recognized that I could only be hurt psychologically by my own wrong actions, which I have control over; by my own wrong reactions (they are tricky, but I have control over them too); or by my own inaction in some situations, like the present world situation, that need action from me. When I recognized all this how free I felt! And I just stopped hurting myself. (Mildred Lisette Norman)

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. (Theodore I. Rubin)

A positive mind creates a positive life. (Anonymous)

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. (Don Marquis)

By the time we've made it, we've had it. (Malcolm Forbes)

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. (Ludwig Borne)

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy, fat women. (Nicole Hollander)

I was neurotic for years.
I was anxious and depressed and selfish.
     Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. Then one day someone said to me, "Don't change. I love you just as you are." Those words were music to my ears: "Don't change, Don't change. Don't change . . . I love you as you are." I relaxed. I came alive. And suddenly I changed! (Anthony de Mello)

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. (Marcus Aurelius)

I never had anything against the government until I had to deal with it. (Hil Oehlmann)

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. (Laurence J. Peter)

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person. Norman Vincent Peale)

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. (Louis L'Amour)

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer. (Albert Camus)

The best things carried to excess are wrong. (Charles Churchill)

So loud each tongue, so empty was each head, / So much they talked, so very little said. (Charles Churchill)

Read not to contradict and refute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. (Lord Bacon)

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen. (Charles Lamb)

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. (Charles Lamb)

If you give me a hug before you die, I'll be okay. (Justin Huff)

We lost the value of leadership. You manage things; you lead people. (Dov Seidman)

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them. (Niels Bohr)

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. (Niels Bohr)

A very good career choice would be to gravitate toward those activities and to embrace those desires that harmonize with your core intentions, which are freedom and growth — and joy. Make a "career" of living a happy life rather than trying to find work that will produce enough income that you can do things with your money that will then make you happy. When feeling happy is of paramount importance to you — and what you do "for a living" makes you happy — you have found the best of all combinations. (Esther Hicks)

Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income. (Alfred E. Neuman)

The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is their gray head. (Bible)

Fear knocked at the door and faith answered. No one was there. (Old English proverb)

Expose yourself to your deepest fear;
After that, fear has no power,
And the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes.
You are free. (Jim Morrison)

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it.... You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. (Ted Williams)

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. (G. K. Chesterton)

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. (Samuel Johnson)

Where there is much light, the shadow is deep. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest. (William Feather)

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. (Shakespeare)

College isn't the place to go for ideas. (Helen Keller)

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you'll have a hard time loving ANYONE, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving yourself. (Barbara De Angelis)

Empty pockets never held anyone back.
Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. Norman Vincent Peale)

People need motivation to do anything.
I don't think human beings learns anything without desperation. (Jim Carrey)

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them. (Anthony de Mello)

You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty — finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor. (William Galston

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. (William James)

Greatitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. (Doris Day)

Find the good and praise it. (Alex Haley)

Stand up and walk out of your history. (Phil McGraw)

Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. (The Music Man)

What is it that I do want? (Esther Hicks)

Wildness can be a way of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures; a part of the geography of hope. (Wallace Stegner)

Pain is what it took to teach me to pay attention. In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. In the exact now, we are all, always, all right. I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty. (Julie Cameron)

Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.... The more you are focused on time — the past and future — the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.... Always say "Yes" to the present moment. (Eckhart Tolle)

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves, regret for the past and fear of the future. (Fulton Oursler)

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? (Frank Scully)

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. (George Eliot)

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. (Horace)

Don't be concerned that you may make a fatal choice, because there aren't any of those. You are always finding your balance. It's a never ending process. (Esther Hicks)

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. (Sir William Osler)

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. (Will Durant)

In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you love? How deeply did you learn to let go? (Buddha)

Let go. Why do you cling to pain?
There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love? (Dr. Leo Buscaglia)[FORGIVENESS]

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear. (Freeman Dyson)

Life isn't fair, but it's still good. (Regina Brett)

When in doubt, just take the next small step. (Regina Brett)

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. (Regina Brett)

Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present. (Regina Brett)

Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks. (Regina Brett)

Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful. (Regina Brett)

It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else. (Regina Brett)

When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer. (Regina Brett)

Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special. (Regina Brett)

Forgive everyone everything. (Regina Brett)

What other people think of you is none of your business. (Regina Brett)

Time heals almost everything. Give time, time. (Regina Brett)

All that truly matters in the end is that you loved. (Regina Brett)

Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need. (Regina Brett)

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up. (Regina Brett)

Don Huntington is God's original masterpiece. (Myself)

Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

The thing that most people do not understand, is that you get to control the way you feel, because you get to choose the thoughts you think. Most people think that they only have the option of responding to the circumstances that surround them. And that's what makes them attempt the impossible, which is to control the circumstances around them, which only feeds their feeling of frustration and vulnerability, because it doesn't take very much life experience to discover you can't control all of those circumstances. But you can control your vibration. And when you control your vibration, you've controlled everything that has anything to do with you. (Esther Hicks)

You see, you're giving others too much power as you even acknowledge how they make you feel. What you've got to decide is how I'm going to feel. We would go to a Virtual Reality and we would practice feeling good. Manifestations come on the heels of what you've conjured in thought. (Esther Hicks)

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. (Dr Joyce Brothers)

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead. (Voltaire)

If being wealthy is taken to mean having the means to satisfy one's every want, all but the very poor can become rich as thou at a single stroke of a magician's wand, simply by ceasing to want more than is really necessary for sustaining life. By being content with little and not giving a rap for what the neighbours think, one can attain a very large measure of freedom, shedding care and worry in a trice. (John Blofeld)[MATERIALISM]

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned. (Wellington)

God chose to limit the intelligence of man, but not to limit his stupidity. (Adelai Stevenson)

Who you are when you are in trouble is who you really are. (Anonymous)

I would like to have engraved inside every wedding band 'Be kind to one another.' This is the Golden Rule of Marriage and the secret of making love last through the years. (Randolph Ray)

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. (Laurence Sterne)

Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin. (Victor Kiam)

People don't care how much you know unless they know how much you care (Anonymous)

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. (W. E. B. Dubois)

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces (Anonymous)

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. (Jimmy Breslin)

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. (Jane Wagner)

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. (Franklin P. Adams)

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It hardly matters what you say to people who are not listening. (Ann Landers)

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. (Edward Everett)

Many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. (Anonymous)

A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. (Fred Estabrook)

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. (Oscar Wilde)

Ignorance breeds fear. The more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you. (Brian Tracy)

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too. (Kenneth Rexroth)

It is usually imagination that is wounded, rather than the heart, being much more sensitive. (Henry David Thoreau)

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable. (William E. Gladstone)

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. (Stephen R. Covey)

You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life. (Brian Tracy)

Never make someone a priority who only considers you an option. (Og Mandino)

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. (JD Salinger)

If you pray for Love, be loving. If you pray for Wealth, be generous. If you pray for Health, practice health. (Anonymous)

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. (Oscar Wilde)

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them. (Samuel Rutherford)

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now. (Zig Ziglar)[PRIORITY]

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. (Lin Yu Tang)[PRIORITY]

Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be. (Harry Lloyd)

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. (Stephen Jay Gould)

People go through life with fixed ideas; they never change. They're just not aware of what's going on. They might as well be a block of wood, or a rock, a talking, walking, thinking machine. That's not human. They are puppets, jerked around by all kinds of things. Press a button and you get a reaction. (Anthony de Mello)

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over the senses of the soul. (Michel de Montaigne)

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. (Ernest Holmes) [ATTITUDE]

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. (Thomas Merton)

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. (Josh Billings)[CREATIVITY]

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. (Voltaire)[POLITICS]

Habit rules the unreflecting herd. (William Wordsworth)

Money makes us the person we always were. (Anonymous)

Success is when you're loved and respected the most by the people who know you the best. (John Maxwell))

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. (P. J. O'Rourke) [POLITICS]

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. (Ben Hecht)

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. (Harold Geneen) [SUCCESS]

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. (Anonymous) [FAITH]

The best man in his dwelling loves the earth. In his heart, he loves what is profound. In his associations, he loves humanity. In his words, he loves faithfulness. In government, he loves order. In handling affairs, he loves competence. In his activities, he loves timeliness. It is because he does not compete that he is without reproach. (Lao-Tze) [POLITICS]

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. (Deitrich Bonhoeffer)

Happy Easter to our Christian friends; Happy Passover to our Jewish friends; To our atheist friends..., good luck. (Anonymous)

If you can't sleep don't count sheep; talk to the shepherd. (Anonymous) [PRAYER]

Adam blaimed Eve; Eve blaimed the snake; the snake didn't have a leg to stand one (Anonymous)

There are some questions that can't be answered by Google. (Anonymous)

It's better to sweat for peace than to bleed in war. (Written on the wall of an aircraft carrier)

That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary. (Major Kira Nerys)

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage. (Martin Luther)

Evil does not exist. It is like darkness and cold. God does not create evil. Evil is what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. (Anonymous)

It took the church 400 years to admit they were wrong about Galileo. Meaning that just because you are powerful doesn't make you right. Though it clearly allows you to be wrong a long time. (Mallet)

If God wanted me to bend over He would have put diamonds on the floor. (Joan Rivers) [EXERCISE]

When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word. (Charles Prestwich Scott)

Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried. (Anonymous)

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. (George Santayana)

Heavenly Father, today I choose to hope in You even when everything around me looks hopeless. I invite You to breathe Your life into the impossible circumstances around me. Have Your way in and through me as I dedicate every part of my heart and mind to You. In Jesus' Name, Amen. (Laura Page)

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. (Calvin — Bill Waterson)

Who is more busy than he who hath least to do? (John Clarke)

I believe that Evolution is a good scientific theory, even though Evolutionism is terrible theology — and is based upon lousy science, as well.
I also believe that Creation is a marvelous biblical doctrine, even though Creationism is horrible scientific theory — and is based upon lousy biblical exegesis, as well. (Don Huntington)

Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe? (Maurice Mascaranhas)

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself. (St. Teresa of Avila)

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. (John Balguy)

To stay young, try to hang out with young people; to die young, try to stay up with them. (Anonymous)

I'm a recovering people-pleaser (Anonymous)

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. (Lewis Thomas)

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. (Bill Watterson)

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies. (Josh Billings)

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ''Why not?'' and the other, ''Why bother?'' (Sidney J. Harris)

A Bible falling apart is a sign of a life that isn't. (Anonymous)

Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong. (Sir Edwin Arnold)

A lady at Bertrand Russell's birthday party, 'What will you do, Bertie, if it turns out you're wrong? What will you say to Him?'
Russell was delighted with the question. He pointed a finger upward and cried, 'Why, I should say, 'God, you gave us insufficient evidence.' (Al Seckel)

Love can hope where reason would despair. (George, Lord Lyttleton)

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. (Abraham J. Heschel)

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. (Francois FTNelon)

First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity. (Martin Myers)

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. (William James)[WAR]

The Delphic oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing. (Socrates)

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. (Joseph Addison)

Life doesn't happen to you; it happens for you. (Byron Katie)

You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office. (Joe Moore)[POLITICS]

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. (John Quincy Adams)

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge. (Patrick Campbell)

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. (Barbara De Angelis)

An open mind is an open heart. (Byron Katie)

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door. (Paul Beatty)

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. (George Soros)

The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels. ( St. Bernard)

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. (Voltaire)[MODERATION]

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. (Voltaire)

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker. (Voltaire)

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. (Voltaire)

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. (Voltaire)

Let us read and let us dance — two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. (Voltaire)

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. (Voltaire)[ART]

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. (Voltaire)[SEX]

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. (Voltaire)[POLITICS]

I hate women because they always know where things are. (Voltaire)

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. (Voltaire)

Better is the enemy of good. (Voltaire)

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. (Voltaire)

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. (Voltaire)

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. (Voltaire)

Ten things you cannot do
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
(Rev. William John Henry Boetcker)

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. (Albert Einstein)

No matter how high you sit, you still sit on your rear end. (Anonymous)

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later...that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. (Tom Wolfe)

Anything translatable into simpler words in the same language is bad. (Bryan A. Garner)

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune. (Nicholas Ling)

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. (John Morley) [SIN GRACE]

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. (Henri Frederic Amiel)

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. (Thomas Jefferson)

Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back...; it is simply a description of what going back is like. (C.S. Lewis)

I think I could have made the NBA myself, if only I had better size, strength, athleticism, court vision, work ethic, shooting ability, and experience playing basketball, or any sport (not to mention the intangibles, which I also lack). (Mark Peters)

The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese. (Jon Hammond)

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. (Abraham Flexner)

There's Only One of Us Here. (Dan Shafer)

We know that in the human condition, you cannot experience emotional distress and emotional uplift at the same time. When you're experiencing mirth, you are not experiencing depression, anxiety or anger. (Steven Sultanoff)

There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. (Alfred North Whitehead)

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. (Lane Olinghouse)

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. (Dave Tyson Gentry)

It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows. (proverb)

It was absolutely marvelous working for Wolfgang Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid. (Victor Weisskopf)

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert. (Pasquier Quesnel)

Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt, and live like there's heaven on earth. (Anonymous)

Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable. (Kathleen Norris) [PATIENCE]

Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Anonymous)[ELEGANCE]

We make God in our image and we're left with a god who can never surprise us, never overwhelm us, nor astonish us, nor transcend us. (A.W. Tozer)

I show up, I listen, and I try to laugh. (Ann Quindlen)

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, But faith looks up! Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly and trust in our Creator who loves us. (Anonymous)

If at first you don't succeed, do it the way your wife told you! (Anononymous)

I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is; they like to run their own business. I know men that would make my wife a better husband than I am; but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em. (Will Rogers)

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. (George Bernard Shaw)

No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot. (Scott Adams)

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning. (Frederick W. Faber)

She's so demanding she makes the boy who cried wolf seem like a Zen Yogi. (Dan Shafer)

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything. (Herbert Gardner) [HUMOR]

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy — I mean that if you are happy you will be good. (Bertrand Russell)

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. (Aesop)

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. (Anatole France)

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. (Antonio Gramsci)

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. (Count Leo Tolstoy)

There are no problems — just things to do! (Anonymous)

Correct grammar and syntax are of no importance so long as one makes one's meaning clear. (George Orwell)

The Universe is an ultimately friendly place; we only need the faith to be able to see the goodness that always lies behind any facade of evil or pain, no matter how vivid they may seem. (Hugo Maiocco)

Be the kind of person that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says "Oh crap, he's up." (Anonymous)

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. (Walter Bagehot)

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful. (Francois la Rochefoucauld)

Sturgeon's Law: Nothing is always absolutely so. (Theodore Sturgeon)

Sturgeon's Revelation: Ninety percent of everything is crap. (Theodore Sturgeon)

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. (David Starr Jordan)

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. (Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh)

I either get what I want or I change my mind. (Anonymous)

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects. (Robert Burns) [TRUST]

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art. (Charles McCabe)

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. (Doug Larson)

Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. (Blore's Razor)

Now is the time for all good men to come to. (Walt Kelly)

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. (Gian Vincenzo Gravina)

In due season will I speak, not out of season. In truth will I speak, not in falsehood. Gently will I speak, not harshly. To one's profit will I speak, not to one's loss. With kindly intent will I speak, not in anger. (Buddha)

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. (William Hazlitt)

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. (Thomas Jefferson)

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do. (Anonymous)

I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight
     that to somebody's need made me blind;
But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret
     For being a little too kind. (Anonymous)

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership. (Edward M. Forster)

A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keep the inner mad man under lock and key. (Petrarch)

Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger. (C. S. Lewis)[PRIDE PROUD]

I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something — or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip. (Roger Zelazny)

The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word. (Joseph R. Sizoo)

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. (Noam Chomsky)

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough. (Groucho Marx) [AGING]

Time's fun when you're having flies. (Kermit the Frog)

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. (Robertson Davies)

A waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses. (Anonymous)

The volume in the abortion debate has been stuck at "rancorous screaming" for so long that when it gets turned down, it's disorienting, like walking outside after a rock concert and trying to hear again. (Amy Sullivan)

Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back. (W. K. Hope)

I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra. (George S. Kaufman)

I view the amount of difficulty one experiences to be in direct proportion to his or her attachments to things or circumstances that are, by their very nature, temporary and transitory. (Christina Grant)

There is more computer power in a singing birthday card than was on board the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander! (Anonymous)

If our faith delivers us from worry, then worry is an insult flung in the face of God. (Robert Runcie)

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company — a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion. (Orison Swett Marden)

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. (Henri-Frederic Amiel)

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. (Seneca)

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. (Sloan Wilson)[POLITICS]

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. (Frank Moore Colby)

To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it. (Leszczynski Stanislaus)

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master. (Oswald Chambers)

You need a new word for how good a grandfather you are. (Adam Huntington)

If there's better to life than this, I don't know what it is. (Adam Huntington)

The primary task of a philosophy of religion is to find those questions that religion is the answer to. (Abraham J. Heschel)

There is still no cure for the common birthday. (John Glenn)

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. (Doris Day)

Fear is the gift from God to protect us from arrogance and to point us in the direction of grace. (Hugh Mayocco)

The world is not made up of atoms; it's made up of stories. (Muriel Rukeyser)

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned — this is the sum of good government. (Thomas Jefferson)[POLITICS]

life is not about wishing that storms will pass but learning to dance in the rain. (Vivian Greene)[JOY FEAR]

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)[COURAGE FEAR]

Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind. (John Lardner)

The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own. (Leo Stein)

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. (Michel de Montaigne)

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Live Passionately; Love Completely; Learn Humbly: Leave Boldly. (Kerry & Chris Shook)

The wise man has his foibles, as well as the fool. But the difference between them is, that the foibles of the one are known to himself and concealed from the world; and the foibles of the other are known to the world and concealed from himself. (John Mason)

Never explain — your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. (Eric Hoffer)

A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. (Eric Hoffer)

A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. (Eric Hoffer)

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. (Eric Hoffer)

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. (Laurens Van der Post)

If winds are the spirit of the sky's ocean, the clouds are the texture. Theirs is easily the most uninhibited dominion of the earth. Nothing in physical shape is too fantastic for them. They can be round as apples or as fine as string, as dense as a jungle, as wispy as a whiff of down, as mild as puddle water or as potent as the belch of a volcano. Some are thunderous anvils formed by violent up drafts from the warm earth. Some are ragged coattails of storms that have passed. Some are stagnant blankets of warm air resting on cold. I have seen clouds in the dawn that looked like a pink Sultan with his pale harem maidens and a yellow slob of eunuch lolling impotent in the background. (Guy Murchie)

Dear God, Your will, nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. Amen. (Bobby Richardson, and others)

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. (Desiderius Erasmus)

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master. (Peter T. Forsythe)

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. (Poul Anderson)

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell. (Joan Crawford)

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. (George Carlin)

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. (Mark Twain)

God's home is where we can hang our hurts. (Rebecca Barlow)

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. (Aleister Crowley)

The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands. (Arthur H. Stainback)

The longest journey of any person is the journey inward. (Dag Hammerskjvld)

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter...it is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. (Mark Twain)

Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like. (Ernest Benn)

They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure, and negligent. (Ben Franklin)

The steam in the locomotive is to push the locomotive down the tracks. It isn't to toot the whistle. (Pastor Jerry)

Shepherds don't breed sheep; sheep breed sheep. (Jerry Hanoum)

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. (Albert Einstein)

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them. (Anonymous)

Have a mouth as sharp as a dagger but a heart as soft as tofu. (Chinese proverb)

Courage is fear that has said its prayers. (Dorothy Bernard)

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. (Sidney J. Harris)

You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life. (James G. Bilkey)

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. (Wilson Mizner)

It's not our mistakes that define us, it's what we do afterwards that counts the most. (Anonymous)

I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. (Buzz Aldrin) [HEALTH]

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. (Isaac Newton)

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid. (Robin G. Collingwood)

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. (Confucius) [LOVE CHARITY]

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. (Gloria Swanson)

I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. (Anonymous) [HUMOR MARRIAGE]

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. (John W. Gardner)

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other. (Plato)

For the Protestant tradition is one of adherence to the text. For the religious, that text is the thumped Bible that promises riches stored up in heaven; for the mercantile it is a book that promises riches stored up on earth. Conveniently these days, the Bible-thumpers happily square their circle and manage to offer riches in both realms, despite what would appear to be a repeated and unequivocal insistence against such a possibility by their religion's founder. (Stephen Fry)

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. (Ralph W. Sockman)

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. (Shelley Winters)

The worst thing about Europe is that you can't go out in the middle of the night and get a Slurpee. (Tellis Frank)

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. (Edith Sitwell)

The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semi-human, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and in the classical sense of the word, divine. (Carl Jung)

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. (Abraham Lincoln)

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. (Mark Twain)

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.... (Ben Franklin)

Don't drink too much wine. That cheapens your life. Drink the Spirit of God, huge draughts of him. Sing hymns instead of drinking songs! Sing songs from your heart to Christ. Sing praises over everything, any excuse for a song to God the Father in the name of our Master, Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 5:18-20 The Message)

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. (Washington Irving)

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club. (Thomas H. Huxley)

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained. (Edward R. Murrow)

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. (Franklin P. Adams)

If you bungle at raising your kids, what is there in life? (Jackie Kennedy)

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. (Terry Pratchett)

There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family. (Jerry Seinfeld)

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.' (Theodore Roosevelt)

Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more. (A. Lou Vickery)

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak. (Jay Leno)

We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love. (Mother Theresa)

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. (Cicero)

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you. (T. S. Eliot)

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. (Agatha Christie)

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. (Robert Heinlein)

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. (Bertrand Russell)

The good are not always good in all things, and the wicked are not always wicked in all things. As it has been said, 'There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us,' that it ill behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us. (Fulton J. Sheen)

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. (Basho)

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. (G. K. Chesterton)

There are two types of people in the world — those that work and those that watch them work. I don't mind an audience. (Anthony Trucks)

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. (Laurence J. Peter)

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. (Kahlil Gibran)

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder. (Charles Morgan)

'Tis God gives skill,
But not without men's hands: he could not make
Antonio Stradivari's violins
Without Antonio. (George Eliot)

By making this wine vine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt. (Thomas Jefferson)

I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure. (Eric Liddell)

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. (Bertrand Russell)

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. (Robert Heinlein)

Absolute power corrupts absolutely, but absolute powerlessness will drive you either to desperation or depression. (Don HuntingtonI)

Thirty percent of Mexican economy is fueled by remittances — money sent by dishwashers and field workers. (Anonymous)

Enforcing rules, especially in its more subtle expressions like responsibilities and expectations, is a vain attempt to create certainty out of uncertainty.(William P. Young)

Rules cannot bring freedom: they only have the power to accuse. (William P. Young)

There are a lot of smart people who are able to say a lot of right things from their brain because they have been told what the right answers are, but they don't know me at all. So really, how can their answers be right even if they are right, if you understand my drift. (William P. Young)

Paradigms power perceptions and perceptions power passions. (better than "emotions")(William P. Young)

Guilt will never help you find freedom in me. The best it can do is make you try harder to conform to some ethic in the outside. I'm about what's on the inside. (William P. Young)

You will grow in the freedom to be inside or outside all kinds of systems and to move freely between and among them. Together you and I can be in it but not of it. (William P. Young)

All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving the people around you with the same love that I share with you. (William P. Young)

So many people believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it. (William P. Young)

More babies die each year through abortion than have died in military services. (foccafacts.com)

Pray like action didn't mean anything and act like prayer didn't mean anything. (Anonymous)

When you can't make politicians see the light then make them feel the heat. (Ronald Regan)

Most men have expressed independence by turning to the work of their hands and the sweat of their brows to find their identity, value and security. By choosing to declare what is good and evil you seek to determine your own destiny. It was this turning that has caused you so much pain. (William P. Young)

A child is protected because she is loved, not because she has a right to be protected.... Rights are where people go so they won't have to work out relationships. (William P. Young)

Rumors of glory are often hidden inside of what many consider to be myths and tales. (William P. Young)

For any created being autonomy is lunacy. Freedom involves trust and obedience inside a relationship of love. (William P. Young)

In order to walk on water you have to get out of the boat (Anonymous)

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)[POLITICS]

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. (Frank Zappa) [POLITICS]

The fruit of silence is Prayer
The fruit of prayer is Faith
The fruit of faith is Love
The fruit of love is Service
The fruit of service is Peace

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. (Anonymous)

God doesn't require us to succeed; He only requires that we try. (Mother Theresa)

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do. (Albert Gray)[SUCCESS]

I have learned that a man has the right to look down on another only when he has to help the other get to his feet. (Anonymous) [HUMILITY SERVICE]

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show. (Anonymous) [GRACE]

The road to hell is paved with adverbs. (Stephen King) [WRITING]

Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning? (Coleman Cox)

Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small.
We haven't time, and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time. (Georgia O' Keefe) [SERENITY FRIENDSHIP]

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. (George Bernard Shaw) [FAITH RELIGION]

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. (Marlene Dietrich)

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. (Frank Herbert)

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the 'True' Religion — several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven. (Mark Twain)

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. (Gerri Mauldin)

Confidence is the food the wise and the liquor of the fool. (Anonymous)

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table. (Henry James)

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. (Henry David Thoreau)

Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. (Zen proverb)

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. (Thomas Merton)

It's always something, never nothing (David White)

Never miss a good chance to shut up. (Will Rogers) [SILENCE LISTENING]

Spirituality means waking up.
Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep.
They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.
No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this; they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess that you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident. (Anthony de Mello)

There are three kinds of men.
The one that learns by reading.
The few who learn by observation.
The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. (Will Rogers)

Adults are just obsolete children. The hell with them. (Dr. Seuss)

A big problem in this world is that the idiots are convinced that they know everything and the intelligent people are full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell)

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. (Anonymous)

Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you. You'll see that no one else other than you was responsible. The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival. (OSHO)

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. (Cicero) [PHILOSOPHER]

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. (William H. Walton) [ANGER FORGIVENESS]

When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. (Wayne Muller)

People like Martin Luther King, John Kennedy, Winston Churchill, Mother Teresa and Abraham Lincoln were not given to vague, sloppy language. They didn't use fluffy jargon.
Their language was specific. It conveyed their convictions and their feelings. (Michael Angier)

Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind. (Rudyard Kipling)

Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work. (Gallagher)

I'm bromidic and bright as a moon-happy night pourin' light on the dew! (Rogers and Hammerstein) [SENSELESS MEANINGLESS]

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. (Richard Feynman)

When we know that God's hand is in everything we can leave everything in God's hand (ODB)

We can do great things for the Lord if we are willing to do little things for others. (ODB) [CHARITY]

We may walk a desert pathway, but the end of the journey is the Garden of God. (ODB)

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. (Sophocles)

Our choice of thoughts, generate our emotions, which determine our choice of action (or inaction), creating our reality — our lives.
Our choice of thoughts equal our life. Choose carefully. (Louie Rochon)

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. (Hermann Hesse)

From great tests come greater testimonies and from big messes come bigger messages. (David A. Garcia, paraphrase)

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. (Marcus Aurelius)

The outer world, far from being the prison of circumstances that is commonly supposed to be, has actually no character whatsoever of its own, whether good nor bad. It has only the character that we give to it by our own thinking. It is naturally plastic to our thought, and this is so, whether we know it or not, and whether we wish it or not. (Emmet Fox)

They say you will never be lonely from the start of each day to its end if you walk life's pathway with love in your heart, and side by side with a freind (Anonymous)

Availability can to do more than capability. (Saed Awwad)

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. (Andy Rooney)[WASTE]

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye, laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)[COURAGE]

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)[COURAGE]

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)[MEDITATION]

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

We are now so far from the road to truth, that religious teachers dispute and hate each other, and speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous. But to a sound judgment, the most abstract truth is the most practical. Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Make not your thoughts, your prisons. (Shakespeare)

Watch you thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; the become habits.
Watch your habits; the become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
(Frank Outlaw)

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. (Paul Gauguin)

Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other. (Unknown)

These days an income is something you can't live without — or within. (Tom Wilson)

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. (Marston Bates)

God in His goodness sent the grapes,
     to cheer both great and small;
little fools will drink too much,
     and great fools not at all. (Anonymous)

Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it. (William James) [PURPOSE]

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

...convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois...and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so that it will stay split. (Raymond Chandler)

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. (C.S. Lewis)

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. (C.S. Lewis)

We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. (C.S. Lewis)

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. (Thomas Edison)[SUCCESS]

You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light. (Vicomte de Chateaubriand) [CRITICISM)

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. (John D. Rockefeller) [SERVICE]

For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness,the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace. (Bhagavad Gita)[QUIETNESS]

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. (Alice Walker)

At a certain point in your life, probably when too much of it has gone by, you will open your eyes and see yourself for who you are especially for everything that made you so different from all the awful normals. (Daniel Barnz) [SUPERIORITY]

The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare to let go. (Richard Bach) [COURAGE]

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. (Robertson Davies)

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. (May Sarton)

Reality is something you rise above. (Lisa Minnelli)

Hope begins in the dark,
     the stubborn hope that if you just show up
     and try to do the right thing,
     the dawn will come.
     You wait and watch and work.
     You don't give up. (Anne Lamott) [SUCCESS PERSISTENCE]

Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.
     You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way. (Og Mandino)

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. (George Eliot)

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. (Eric Hoffer)

Don't be afraid of a little opposition.
Remember that the kite of success generally rises against the wind of adversity — not with it! (Napoleon Hill)

No one has a chance to enjoy permanent success until they begin to look in the mirror for the real cause of all their mistakes. (Napoleon Hill)

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. (Napoleon Hill)

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. (Leo Tolstoy)

Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny — he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally — you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you. (OSHO)

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance. (Michael Crichton)

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others. (Blaise Pascal)

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example. (Mark Twain)

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. (Pablo Picasso)

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die, having left undone. (Pablo Picasso)

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. (Pablo Picasso)

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. (Ambrose Bierce)

It costs so much to be a full human being that very few have the love and courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. (Morris West)

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. (Albert Schweitzer)

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. (Dale Carnegie)

Conceit is God's gift to little men. (Bruce Barton)

It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose. (Darrin Weinberg)

Despair is the conclusion of fools. (Benjamin Disraeli)

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter of your troubles that you find serenity. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. (Anais Nin)

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. (Violeta Parra)

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. (Anne Frank)

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. (Arthur Golden)

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. (Denis Waitley)

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image. (Denis Waitley)

Let Your Freak Flag Fly! (Drew Barrymore)

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. (Elizabeth Kubler Ross)

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow. (Evan Esar)

I do not know which makes a man more conservative — to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. (John Maynard Keynes)

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. (Nolan Bushnell)

Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. (Elizabeth Elliot)

Universal human hard-wired grammar has nothing to do with how well people write. (Roy Blount Jr.)

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more. (Robert Collier)

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. (Ernest Hemingway)

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly.
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. (Henry Miller)

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. (P. J. O'Rourke)

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it knows and loves the one who is leading (Oswald Chambers)

Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. they can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak. (William P. Young)

When you forgive someone you certainly release them from judgment, but without true change, no real relationship can be established. (William P. Young)

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. (Frederick BuechnerI)

Rather than a pyramid, I want to be the center of a mobile, where everything in your life — your friends, family, occupation, thoughts, activities — is connected to me but moves with the wind, in and out and back and forth, in an incredible dance of being. (William P. Young)

Those who love me come from every system that exists. They were Buddhists or Mormons, Baptists or Muslims, Democrats, Republicans, and many who don't vote or are not part of any Sunday morning or religious institutions. I have followers who were murderers and many who were self-righteous. Some are bankers and bookies, Americans and Iraqis, Jews and Palistinians. I have no desire to make them Christian, but I do want to join them in their transformation into sons and daughters of my Papa, into my brothers and sisters, into my Beloved. (William P. Young)

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change (Brian Tracy)

If you are going through hell, keep going. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. (Oscar Wilde)

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it. (Emerson Pugh)

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. (Eric Hoffer)

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. (Steven Weinberg)

Even in our sleep, pain which we cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God (Aeschylus)

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. (Ezra Taft Benson)

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men. (Russell P. Askue)

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. (John Adams) [POLITICS]

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey. (Marie Louise De La Ramee)

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. (John F. Kennedy) [PHILOSOPHY]

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. (John F. Kennedy)

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world — or to make it the last. (John F. Kennedy)

Happiness is the full use of your powers along the lines of excellence. (John F. Kennedy)

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. (Jules Renard)

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. (George Bernard Shaw)

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. (Martin Luther King, Jr.) [EQUALITY RACE]

It is a deplorable thing that, when persons are engaged in acute political controversy, they sometimes allow their language to be rather the means of giving relief to their feelings, than an actual description of the facts. (Sir Winston Churchill)[POLITICS]

Souls don't need to be fixed; they need room to breathe. (Dan Sturdivant)

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech. (Somerset Maugham)

I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly. (James Carr)

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. (Samuel McChord Crothers)

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. (Jack London)

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be. (Rita Rudner)

I never know how much of what I say is true. (Bette Midler)

You might not hear my words, but just look into my eyes and listen with your heart. (Anonymous)

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. (Voltaire)

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. (Dorothy Parker)

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. (Mother Theresa)

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows. (Helen Keller)

It's choice — not chance — that determines your destiny. (Jeann Nidetch)

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. (Robert Brault)

The only things that stand between people and what they want in life are the will to try it, and the faith to believe it's possible (Rich Devos)

Laughter is an instant vacation (Milton Berle)

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is a quiet voice at the end of the day, saying...., "I will try again tomorrow." (Mary Anne Radmacher)

Sometimes in the winds of change we find our true direction (Anonymous)

Nothing happens... but first a dream (Carl Sandburg)

The heart that gives gathers (Marianne Moore)

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. (Kurt Vonnegut)

When you find honey eat only as much as you need. (Proverbs 25:16)

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. (Michel de Montaigne)

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side — I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. (Bethania McKenstry)

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. (Harold Rosenberg)

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. (Paul Valery)

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove..... But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. (Forest E. Witcraft) [EDUCATION]

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. (Joseph Baretti)

Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words. (Harlan Miller)

A person who can't dance complains the floor is not balanced. (Farci saying)

Everyone's a hero in their own way, in their own not that heroic way. (Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon)

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. (Thomas Jefferson)

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. (G. K. Chesterton)

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. (Soren Kierkegaard)

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something. (Emo Philips)

Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not. (Thomas Jefferson)

While I never had a college education course, after forty years in higher education I have always considered myself to be a teacher. One of the things I noticed during those years was that successful teachers had one simple thing in common. Every one of them liked their students. (William C.)

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. (Augusten Burroughs)

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. (Soren Kierkegaard)

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. (William Feather)

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong. (Thomas Fuller)

Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage. (Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum)

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. (Thomas Jefferson)

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

We can know all the bells and whistles, but if we don't have a deep trust in God's provision, a quiet confidence in His power, and a loving disposition toward others, we aren't deep at all (Tim Agnello)

I talk of a God who is not theoloical and informative but who is intimate and transformative. (Tim Agnello)

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is. (Gertrude Stein)

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. (Eric Hoffer)

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. (Jane Wagner)

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. (Honore De Balzac)

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. (Honore De Balzac)

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. (Flannery O'Connor)

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. (Sir Winston Churchill)

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause. (George Lucas)

He who angers you, controls you! (Anonymous)

God Himself does not propose to judge a man until he is dead. So why should you? (Anonymous)

A cross-eyed discuss thrower won't set many records, but he will keep people awake. (Larry J McKinney)

Being a college president is like being the director of funeral home: there are a lot of people beneath you, but nobody is listening. (Larry J McKinny)

When God is dead anything is permissable. (Dovstieski)

It's against the policies of abortion clinics to show a sonagram to the patients — for obvious reasons (Matthew Mason).

White Americans who attend church once a week live, on average, seven years longer; African Americans live 14 years (Anonymous)

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of death again and again before we reach the mountaintops of our desires. (Nelson Mandela)

Integrity is one of several paths. It distinguishes itself from the others because it is the right path, and the only one upon which you will never get lost. (M.H. McKee)

Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. (American proverb)

Seniors are the leading carriers of aides: hearing, walking, seeing.... (Anonymous)

Someone told me that I was gaining weight. I just turned the other chin. (Anonymous)

If you can meet the perceived need of a person, then you can meet their actual need. (Clay Eliot)

Kindness is the act of showing others they are valuable by how you treat them. (Anonymous)

I want to know how God created the world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts. The rest are details. (Albert Einstein)

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

The earth will soon disolve like snow
The sun forebear to shine
But God, who called me here below,
Will be forever mine

Life doesn't cease to become funny when you die any more than it ceases to be serious when you laugh. (George Bernard Shaw)

There are a multitude of themes in Christianity. Some are marvelous. Some are dysfunctional and even pernicious. Sometimes the center doesn't hold. The conflicts include:
Love v hated
True humility v pride
Tolerance v harsh judgment
Kindness v indifference
Authenticity v hypocracy
Generocity v materialism

There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others. (George Bush)

They were like Christian Lite — less filling, less flavor. (Anonymous)

You are as sick as your secrets. (Anonymous)

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. Do everything in love. (1 Cor. 16:13-14)

We are all pressed into the service of the kingdom. The draft is back. (Anonymous)

Programs don't make disciples, disciples make disciples.
... It's what we do, not what we are (Dave Bill)

God demanded the sacrifice of Isaac not because He wanted Isaac, but because He wanted Abraham. (Dave Bill)

We might call the Great Commission 'great' because of the effort it demands of us, as well as because of its importance (Dave Bill)

Christianity is the only religion not spelled DO. Spelled DONE. (Anonymous)

God showed more grace for Judas on the night he betrayed Him than some preachers have with mlnisters who fall. (Anonymous)

We need to stop talking to people about people, and start talking to God about people (intercession). and to people about God (ministry)

The Christian life is like learning to play the guitar. It requires more than reading books and playing CDs. You must practice, which requires relationships

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk. (Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider)

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. (Henry Allen)

Retirement is having twice as much husband and half as much money (Reddy Pruett)

If you have to have the last word, make it be "I'm sorry!" (Anonymous)

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. (George F. Will)

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? (Jean Kerr)

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. (George Bernard Shaw)

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. (R. Buckminster Fuller)

There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. (Franz Kafka)

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you. (Don Marquis)

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. (Mark Twain)

You look like you were embalmed and it wore off. (Garrison Keiler)

Verbing weirds language. (Calvin)

When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow,
We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago,
And etched on vacant places
Are half-forgotten faces
Of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know.
(Ella Wheeler Wilcox)

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you ... yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand. (Mother Theresa)

The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round — kind, generous, friendly and with an occasional moment of ecstasy. But Christmas is the only time they dare reveal themselves. (Harlan Miller)

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! (Hamilton Wright Mabie)

The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. (Helen Keller)

God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time. (Bil Keane)

Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it weren't for Christmas
We'd all be Jewish.
(Benny Hill)

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. (Ben Franklin)

Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself. (Francis C. Farley)

I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round — apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that — as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. (Charles Dickens)

Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under the tree. (Charlotte Carpenter)

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. (Calvin Coolidge)

Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space. (Dave Barry)

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!' (Dave Barry)

Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months. (Oren Arnold)

To be able to fill leisure time intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. (Bertrand Russell)

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. (John Ciardi)

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for — in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. (Ellen Goodman)

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

Success is one thing you can't pay for.
You buy it on the installment plan and make payments every day. (Cleo E. Shivers)

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. (James Russell Lowell)

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. (Philip K. Dick)

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have. (Ernest Haskins)

If I tell you only part of the evidence and you believe it, you have been indoctrinated.
If I tell you all the evidence and you make a decision, then you have been taught. (Mike Riddle)

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. (G. K. Chesterton)

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. (J. M. Barrie)

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. (Warren Beatty)

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade. (Henry Ward Beecher)

When God wanted sponges and oysters, He made them and put one on a rock and the other in the mud. When He made man, He did not make him to be a sponge or an oyster; He made him with feet and hands, and head and heart, and vital blood, and a place to use them, and He said to him, Go Work. (Henry Ward Beecher)

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic — in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea — known to medical science is work. (Thomas Szasz)

It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life — those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest people. (Brutus Hamilton)

"Secede" is a good example of why English has spelling bees: the letter 'e' represents three different sounds in it, while 's' and 'c' represent the same sound. (Anonymous)

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. (Carrie Fisher)

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. (Bill Vaughan)

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. (George Burns)

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. (Tom Robbins)

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. (Thomas H. Huxley)

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. (John J. Plomp)

The bad things in life open your eyes to the good things you weren't aware of before. (Anonymous)

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. (Jerry Seinfeld)

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. (Jean Rostand)

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. (Russell Green)

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. (Immanuel Kant)

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter. (Confucius)

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. (Oscar Wilde)

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. (e. e. cummings)

Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything. (Arnold H. Glasgow)

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. (Oscar Wilde)

Laughter is the closest distance between two people. (Victor Borge)

Men who never get carried away should be. (Malcolm Forbes)

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. (William Ralph Inge)

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. (Samuel Johnson)

A cult is a religion with no political power. (Tom Wolfe)

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. (Marlon Brando)

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. (Peter Drucker)

While any individuals' religion is usually the result of a regional and parental lottery, you could still choose from a wide array of different ideologies, as long as you knew about them. I found this both liberating and frightening. (Kristy Kiernan)

The most flammable kind of wood is the chip on the shoulder. (E. Joseph Cossman)

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. (H. L. Mencken)

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. (Doug Larson) [HEALTH]

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! Or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after! (Philip Dormer Stanhope)

Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it. (Ben Franklin)

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. (Leo Tolstoy) [HEALTH]

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. (Laurence Sterne)

Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. (François Duc de La Rochefoucauld)

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you! (Tommy Smothers) [HEALTH]

Sickness can be a healthy reaction to an unhealthy way of life. (Leonid S. Sukhorukov)

Sickness comes on horseback, but goes away on foot. (William C. Hazlitt) [HEALTH]

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not. (Mark Twain)

The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. (Quentin Regestein) [HEALTH]

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry. (Mark Twain)

There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it. (Josh Billings)

They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger. (Chi Chi Rodriguez) [HEALTH]

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. (Sydney J. Harris)

To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less. (Chu Hui Weng) [HEALTH]

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. (George Dennison Prentice)

If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)[HEALTH] [ATTITUDE]

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. (John Mortimer) [HEALTH]

Health is merely the slowest way someone can die. (Anonymous) [HEALTH]

Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them. [HEALTH]

Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. (Danish proverb) [HEALTH] [EXERCISE]

Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. (Anonymous) [HEALTH] [DIET]

The greatest factor in any undertaking is one's belief about it. (Henry James)

It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway. (Evan Esar)

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. (Malcolm Forbes)

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. (James F. Byrnes)

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. (Hermann Hesse)

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. (Robert Orben)

Perhaps a test for discerning the difference between humility and vanity lies in figuring out how good I feel about any praise or gratitude that follows my performing an act of kindness. As a proud person, I will always insist upon continuing and effusive displays of gratitude for anything I do for another person. (Don Huntington)

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. (HL Mencken)

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die...; life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. (George Bernard Shaw)

My publication was successful as it required and/or elicited:

• Constancy of purpose.
• Sense of direction.
• Risk-taking.
• Follow through.
• Creative expression.
• Others' respect.
• Encouragement of the best in others.
• Fulfillment of a unique niche
• Accomplishment of a worthy task. (Carol Secord)

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all. (Peter McWilliams)

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is success. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

If you just think twice you're a genius in our generation. (inspirationtoday.com)

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. (John F. Kennedy)

Someday the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. (H.P. Lovecraft)

The wicked borrows and does not pay back, but the righteous is gracious and gives. (Ps 37:21)

Powerlessness frustrates; absolute powerlessness frustrates absolutely. Absolute frustration is a dangerous emotion to run a world with. (Russell Baker)

"In God We Trust" is a fine motto, simple direct gracefully phrased; it always sounds well — In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true." (Mark Twain, in a conversation with Andrew Carneigie)

Only presidents, editors and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial 'we.' (Mark Twain)

A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it; if they will not fight for it when it is directly attacked; if they can be deluded by the artifices used to cheat them out of it; if by momentary discouragement, or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet even of a great man, or trust him with powers which enable him to subvert their institutions; in all these cases they are more or less unfit for liberty: and though it may be for their good to have had it even for a short time, they are unlikely long to enjoy it. (John Stuart Mill)

Let early education be a sort of amusement, you will then better be able to find out the natural bent of the child. (Plato)

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. (Yiddish proverb)

Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem. (Ronald Regan)

If we ever forget that we're One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. (Ronald Regan)

When it comes to emotions intensity can't be sustained. (Carolyn Hax)

Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose. (Beverly Nichols)

If by a Liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad; if that is what they mean by a Liberal, then I'm proud to say I'm a Liberal. (John F. Kennedy)

These are the stakes. To make a world in which all of God's children can live, or to go into the dark. We must either love each other, or we must die. (Lyndon Johnson)

We need fathers to realize that responsibility doesn't just end at conception. That doesn't just make you a father. What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child. Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father. (Obama)

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. (Pearl Buck)

Abstract expressionism was invented by New York drunks. (Joni Mitchell)

You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think. (Anonymous)

Trust Allah but keep one eye on your camel (Arab proverb)

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. (Mark Twain)

I've had a lot of problems in my life most of which never happened. (Mark Twain)

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men. (Sydney J. Harris)

Truth is not in the middles and not at one extreme, but in both extremes. (Charles Simeon)

You can easily find some stupid and unsatisfactory Christian and say, 'So there's your boasted new man! Give me the old kind.' But...you will know in your heart that this is only evading the issue. What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggle? One soul in the whole creation you do know; and it is the only one whose fate is place in your hands. (C.S. Lewis)

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad.... Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of creatures that worked like machines would hardly be worth creating. (C.S. Lewis)

If what you call your 'faith' in Christ does not involve taking the slightest notice of what He says, then it is not Faith at all   nor faith or trust in Him, but only intellectual acceptance of some theory about Him. (C.S. Lewis)

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. (Plato)

Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.... He will not be thinking about humility: he will not be thinking about himself at all. (C.S. Lewis)

If you want to find out how proud you are the easiest way is to ask yourself, "How much do I dislike it when other people snub me, or refuse to take any notice of me, or patronise me, or show off?" (C.S. Lewis)

Every one says that forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.... And then to mention the subject at all is to be greeted with howls of anger. It is not that people think this too high and difficult a virtue: it is that they think it hateful and contemptible. (C.S. Lewis)

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.... A thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right. (C.S. Lewis)

Right actions done for the wrong reason do not help build the internal quality or character.... We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules whereas He really wants people of a particular sort. (C.S. Lewis)

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up. (C.S. Lewis)

A live body is not one that never gets hurt, but one that can to some extent repair itself. In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble — because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time. (C.S. Lewis)

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from. He is our only possible ally, and we have made ourselves His enemies. Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. (C.S. Lewis)

A right to happiness doesn't, for me, make much more sense than a right to be six feet tall, or to have a millionaire for your father, or to get good weather whenever you want a picnic. (C.S. Lewis)

The rain, it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust fella
But mainly on the just because
the unjust steals the just's umbrella. (Lord Charles Bowen)

The truth must dazzle gradually
     Or every man be blind. (Emily Dickenson)

(From "Intimations of Immortality")
          The moon doth with delight
     Look round her when the heavens are bare;
          Waters on a starry night
          Are beautiful and fair;
     The sunshine is a glorious birth;
     But yet I know, where'er I go,
That there hath pass'd away a glory from the earth. (Wordsworth)

Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. (Wordsworth)

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer. (Denis Watley)

It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not. (Denis Watley)

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. (Denis Watley)

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. (Denis Watley)

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. (Denis Watley)

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. (Dennis Watley)

Fail often to succeed sooner. (Jennifer White)

I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated all the ways that will not work, I will find a way that will work. (Thomas Edison about his attempts to invent the light bulb)

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. (Ronald Regan)

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. (Horace Walpole)

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. (Carl Sagan)

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. (Frank Herbert)

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. (Michael Crichton)

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately. (Scott Adams)

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. (David Friedman)

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. (Henry Kissinger)

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. (Nora Ephron)

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do? (Ronnie Shakes)

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. (Marshall McLuhan)

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. (Albert Schweitzer)

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. (Kurt Vonnegut)

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. (George Orwell)

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. (Will Rogers)

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. (George Jackson)

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. (Andre Gide)

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey. (John Ruskin)

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep. (Woody Allen)

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. (Anonymous)

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. (Dr. Martin Henry Fischer)

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. (Andy Rooney)

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong. (Bill Vaughan)

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. (Voltaire)

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. (Arnold Toynbee)

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. (Quentin Crisp)

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. (Norm Crosby)

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. (Friedrich von Schiller)

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. (Krishnamurti)

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. (Garrison Keillor)

So let us begin anew — remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.... Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. (John F. Kennedy)

Almost two-thirds of women 20 and older, one in four children and teenagers, 52% percent of adult men, and three out of four people 65 or older are taking prescription drugs. The biggest increase in such usage has been among 20-to-44-year-old age group, who should be among the healthiest in our society but who have turned to chronic drug use for depression, diabetes, asthma, attention-deficit disorder and seizures. Also, antidepressant use is soaring among teens and working-age women. With the fattening of America's children, the problems will only continue to worsen. (Tony Seton)

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side — I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. (Bethania McKenstry)

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent. (Robert Copeland)

There must be more to life than having everything. (Maurice Sendak)

Some things have to be believed to be seen. (Ralph Hodgson)

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. (E. M. Forster)

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. (Bertrand Russell)

Tact is the ability to tell people to "Go to Hell" and have them look forward to the trip. (Ron Beatty)

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. (William Ellery Channing)

Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein. (Joe Theisman)

It is not true that life is one damn thing after another — it is one damn thing over and over. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

God doesn't always pick up her messages on time, but she does return her calls. (Anonymous)

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. (Joseph Addison)

We have no energy strategy. If you are going to use tax policy to shape energy strategy then you want to raise taxes on the things you want to discourage — gasoline consumption and gas-guzzling cars — and you want to lower taxes on the things you want to encourage — new, renewable energy technologies. We are doing just the opposite. (Tom Freedman)

I believe in political organizations, and I believe in practical politics. If a man is not practical, he is of no use anywhere. But when politicians treat practical politics as foul politics, and when they turn what ought to be a necessary and useful political organization into a machine run by professional spoilsmen of low morality in their own interest, then it is time to drive the politician from public life, and either to mend or destroy the machine, according as the necessity may determine. (Theodore Roosevelt)

A recent survey of teenagers by the education advocacy group Common Core found that a quarter could not identify Adolf Hitler, a third did not know that the Bill of Rights guaranteed freedom of speech and religion, and fewer than half knew that the Civil War took place between 1850 and 1900....nearly 20 percent of respondents did not know who the U.S. fought in World War II. Eleven percent thought that Dwight Eisenhower was the president forced from office by the Watergate scandal. Another 11 percent thought it was Harry Truman. (Bob Herbert)

I watch what I do to see what I really believe. (Helen Prejean)

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. (Douglas Adams)

Character is not built in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. (Helen Keller)

He speaks to the American I've envisioned in my music for the past 35 years, a generous nation with a citizenry willing to tackle nuanced and complex problems, a country that's interested in its collective destiny and in the potential of its gathered spirit, a place where 'nobody crowds you, and nobody goes it alone. (Prince about Obama)

The mistake pro-choice forces have sometimes made in the past, and this is a generalization..., has been to not acknowledge the wrenching moral issues involved. And so the debate got so polarized that both sides tended to exaggerate the other side's positions. Most Americans, I think, recognize that what we want to do is avoid, or help people avoid, making this difficult choice. That nobody is pro-abortion — abortions are never a good thing. (Obama)

Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy. (HL Mencken)

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. (Galileo Galilei)

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once. (Blaise Pascal)

It's not our mistakes the define us, it's what we do afterwards that count the most. (Anonymous)

Six weeks before he died, a reporter asked Elvis Presley, "Elvis, when you first started playing music, you said you wanted to be rich, famous and happy. Are you happy?" "I'm lonely as hell," he replied. (Anonymous)

Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is. (Vince Lombardi)

Satan builds strongholds in the secret places of life and reinforces it with silence. (Anonymous)

It is the ferment of ideas, the clash of disagreeing judgments, the privilege of the individual to develop his own thoughts and shape his own character that makes progress possible. (Calvin Coolidge)

Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. (Hermann Goering)

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. (Jeff Greenfield)

I'd rather be ruled by a wise Turk than a foolish Christian. (Martin Luther)

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination by ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference and undernourishment. (Robert Maynard Hutchins)

Some day, after we have mastered the wind, the waves, the tides, and gravity, We shall harness for God the energies of Love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire. (Teilhard de Chardin)

I don't belong to any organized party. I'm a Democrat. (Will Rogers)

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. (C.S. Lewis)

In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep. (Albert Einstein)

...when you are in politics you are in a wasp's nest with a short shirt-tail, as the saying is. (Mark Twain)

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet. (Mark Twain)

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. (Anonymous)

Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things. (Randy Pausch)

Decide early on whether you are a Tigger or an Eore. (Randy Pausch)

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. (Hilaire Belloc)

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. (Eleonora Duse)

Do you not know how it is with love? First comes delight: then pain: then fruit. And then there is joy of the fruit, but that is different again from the first delight. And mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step: for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair. You must not try to keep the raptures: they have doen their work. Manna kept, is worms. (C.S. Lewis)

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? (Albert Einstein)

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with little hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
     I believe that the most lawless and inordinate loves are less contrary to God's will than a self-invited and self-protective lovelessness. We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armor. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as a way in which they should break, so be it. (C.S. Lewis)

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. Sherlock Homes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle )

We must not allow perfection to interfere with possible. (Jim White)

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. (Albert Einstein)

Journalism consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. (G. K. Chesterton)

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results. (Herman Melville)

No one but kings and princes should have the itch, for the sensation of scratching is so delightful. (King James I)

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence (Issac Newton)

Men go abroad to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. (Saint Augustine)

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. (Anonymous)

Life is a come-as-you-are party; all you have to do is be yourself, and you can have it all. (Jack Canfield)

If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of hours. But the family & friends we leave behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. (Anonymous)

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the constitution which granted a right of Congress of expending on the objects of benevolence the money of their constituents. (James Madison)

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. (Douglas Adams)

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. (Douglas Adams)

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. (Douglas Adams)

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. (Douglas Adams)

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. (Douglas Adams)

My mind enjoys wandering, and it won't be confined to the truth. (René Descartes)

One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade. (Chinese proverb)

Eschew controversy, my brethren, as you would eschew the entrance to hell itself! Let them have it their own way. Let them talk, let them write, let them correct you, let them traduce you. Let them judge and condemn you, let them slay you. Rather let the truth of God itself suffer than that love suffer. You have not enough of the Divine nature in you to be a controversialist. (Alexander Whyte)

Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest. (Albert Einstein)

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think. (Oprah Winfrey)

Ordinary things consistently done produces extraordinary results. (Jim White)

We are a happy family not because we have the best of everything; but because we make the best of everything we have. (Ginamarie Cornelius)

We have a right to demand a real accomplishment, a making of something better, before we give someone our regard and our applause. (Anonymous)

Everything worth doing is worth doing badly at the beginning. (Jim White)

There are two ways to be rich; one is to have more, the other is to want less. (Dick Leider) [MATERIALISM SATISFACTION]")

There are two ways to get enough: One is to accumulate more and more, the other is to desire less. (G. K. Chesterton)[MATERIALISM SATISFACTION]")

When people with whom you interact notice that without fail you receive, process, and organize in an airtight manner the exchanges and agreements they have with you, they begin to trust you in a unique way. (David Allen)

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. (Peter Ustinov)

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population. (Albert Einstein)

"Were the Columbine boys on drugs?" Sam asked hopefully.
"Nope, not as far as we know."
Silence. "I guess they just weren't any good at feeling bad."
That's probably the smartest thing anyone has said so far. (Anne Lamott)

Jesus' heart was not hardened against crazy people, or we would all be doomed. He was not embarrassed by craziness. He just said, "Yeah, well, me too," then he took care of you anyway. (Anne Lamott)

If you are not feeling fear before you do something, it is an indication that the task at hand is not big enough for you. Think of fear as a reassuring signal that you are on the right course! (Jim White)

It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. (Albert Einstein)

If you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. (Napoleon Hill)

Clarity for me is where my heart, mind, and soul are holding hands. (Laura Page)

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out, a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment. Therein, he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it. (Victor Frankel)

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. (Albert Einstein)

The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. (Albert Einstein)

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self. (Albert Einstein)

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. (Maya Angelou)

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. (Albert Einstein)

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. (Albert Einstein)

Creation is a combination of vision and will. Vision gives the plan but will is the human energy that builds to completion. (J. Frank Devendorf)

Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns — or dollars. Take your choice — there is no other. (Ayn Rand)

The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. (Henry Miller)

Among all my patients in the second half of life, that is to say over 35, there has not been one whose problem, in the last resort, was not that of finding a religious outlook on life — this, of course, has nothing to do with a particular creed or membership of a church. (Carl Jung)

Look how many of them there were,
Look how young they were,
They died for your freedom,
hold back your tears and be silent.
     (Signboard — Omaha Beach Cemetery)

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. (Samuel Beckett)

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. (Albert Einstein)

Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees takes off his shoes,
The rest sit around and pluck blackberries.
     (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Preparation is — if not the key to genius — then at least the key to sounding like a genius" (Sir Winston Churchill)

Truth is what stands the test of experience. (Albert Einstein)

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. (Albert Einstein)

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. (Ovid, A.D. 10)

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. (Albert Einstein)

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. (Woody Allen)

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. (Albert Einstein)

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in the United States is closely connected with this. (Albert Einstein)

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion. (Albert Einstein)

We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life. (Franz Kafka)

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.... (Albert Einstein)

A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy. (Thomas Merton)

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. (Albert Einstein)

There remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. (Albert Einstein)

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. (Albert Einstein)

From nothing you can accomplish everything if you have the will and the heart — so long as you hold yourself accountable to reaching your goals. (Jim White)

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. (Albert Einstein)

The hardest thing to understand is why we can understand anything at all. (Albert Einstein)

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business(John Steinbeck)

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means. (Albert Einstein)

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is unnecessary. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless. (Darryl Zanuck)

I don't pretend to understand the universe — it's much bigger than I am. (Albert Einstein)

Only a life lived for others is worthwhile. (Albert Einstein)

I don't believe that only good things will happen to me; I believe that all things happen to me for an ultimate good. (Don Huntington)

Life may not always be the party we hoped for. But while we are here we might as well dance. (Anonymous)

Anyone can give up. It's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength (Anonymous)

As I've gotten older, I've come to realize that my will is anything but limitless. I can will myself to knowledge, but not to wisdom. I can will myself to pleasure, but not to happiness. I can will myself to money, but not to a sense of security. I can will myself to veggies and aerobics, but not to good health. I can will myself to bed, but not to sleep. All of which leads me to conclude that my deepest desires were never attainable through the exercise of my will. There's a feeling of relief in that conclusion. And ... there's a small bit of hope. (Chuck Lorre)

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is. (Albert Camus)

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. (Albert Einstein)

Eagles soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines. (Anonymous)

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. (Albert Einstein)

And I say to you, I have decided to stick with Love. For I know that Love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems, and I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination. (Albert Einstein)

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing. (Voltaire)

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen. (Albert Einstein)

The trials that keep us kneeling before our lifelong assignment are never haphazard. All the sufferings that are thrust upon us can serve to bring us to maturity.... Hurt is the essential ingredient of ultimate Christ-likeness. (Calvin Miller)

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. (David Brin)

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. (Thomas Jefferson)

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. (Thomas Jefferson)

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. (Thomas Jefferson)

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. (Charles C. West)

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. (Richard Bach) [COURAGE]

When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen:

1. There will be something solid for you to stand upon, or,
2. you will be taught how to fly. (Patrick Overton)

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction. (Albert Einstein)

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. (Victor Hugo)

People disagree passionately about science and morality because they care about them, and when their disagreements involve public policy, the forum for resolving them will be politics. Neither religion nor science can expect a free pass in the court of public opinion or in the voting booth. (TIME, August 6, 2007)

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. (Hunter S. Thompson)

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. (Albert Einstein)

A lie goes half-way around the world before truth gets its boots on. (Mark Twain)

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
I'm from the government and I'm here to help. (Ronald Regan)

Take out the trash.
The trash is anything that is keeping you form the only thing that matters, this moment. Here. Now.
And when you truly are in the here and now you'll be amazed at what you can do and how well you can do it. (Dan Millman)

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. (G. K. Chesterton)

Life is short! Break the rules! Forgive quickly! Kiss slowly!
Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably.
And never regret anything that made you smile. (Anonymous)

I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific. (Lilly Tomlin)

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. (Franklin P. Jones)

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. (Franklin P. Jones)

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. (Franklin P. Jones)

The most efficient labor-saving device is still money. (Franklin P. Jones)

Don't believe everything you think. (Anonymous)

The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration (Anonymous)

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. (C.S. Lewis)

There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan. (C.S. Lewis)

How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven. (George Macdonald)

The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'. (C.S. Lewis)

Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter. (William Murray)

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. (Margaret Halsey)

The happiest people in the world are not those who have no problems, but those who learn to live with things that are less than perfect. (Anonymous) [CIRCUMSTANCE]

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way. (Mark Twain)

It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not. (Mark Twain)

All you need is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. (Mark Twain)

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.(Mark Twain)

Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution — these can lift at a colossal humbug — push it a little — weaken it a little over the course of a century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. (Mark Twain)

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. (Mark Twain)

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. (Mark Twain)

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.(Mark Twain)

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. (Mark Twain)

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. (Mark Twain)

It is noble to be good; it is still nobler to teach others to be good — and less trouble. (Mark Twain)

I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse. (Mark Twain)

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination. (Mark Twain)

Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight — this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one — this is business.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. (Douglas Adams)

A man who disbelieved the Christian story as fact but continually fed on it as myth would, perhaps, be more spiritually alive than the one who assented and did not think much about it. (C.S. Lewis)

To be truly Christian we must both assent to the historical fact and also receive the myth (fact though it has become) with the same imaginative embrace which we accord all myths. The one is hardly more necessary than the other. (C.S. Lewis)

Although ignorance is not bliss, the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. (Anonymous)

If you want to do something for world peace, cultivate kindness, stop hating, and have hope for all individuals including you. (Patricia Sun)

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down. (Arianna Huffington)

Being thin feels better than anything could taste. (Dr. Ron Hulnick)

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. (Shakespeare)

Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived. (Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life)

Poverty, ignorance, and the soil go hand in hand. (John Marsh, about his early life on a farm. John Marsh, Pioneer, George Lyman)

The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.
(Dorothy Frances Gurney)

BLOGGING: CD Radio with typing (Dave Barry)

Singing songs about God without a life of obedience is no more worship than an adolescent crush can be considered marriage. Worship is the lifelong process of elevating God rather than myself to the place of prominence in my life. (Pastor Dave)

Two messages to be carried in two pockets:
"For you the universe was created."
"You are but dust and ashes."
You can find peace as you embrace the paradox. (Jewish Wisdom)

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. (Albert Einstein)

There is only one thing more powerful than all the armies of the world, that is an idea whose time has come. (Victor Hugo)

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. (Stephen W. Hawking)

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it — always. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. (Stephen W. Hawking)

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy. (Physicist Heinz Pagels)

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. (Copernicus)

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. (Albert Einstein)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science. (Albert Einstein)

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. (Stephen W. Hawking)

It gives me a deep comforting sense that 'things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.' (Helen Keller)

We feel and know that we are eternal. (Edmund Spenser)

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being. (Carl Jung)

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. (Archibald MacLeish)

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the law of the universe will be simpler. (Henry David Thoreau)

Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest. (Dogen)

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world. (Helen Keller)

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge. (Albert Einstein)

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. (Giordano Bruno)

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. (Galileo Galilei)

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. (Chief Seattle)

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity...and I'm not sure about the universe. (Albert Einstein)

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. (Max Planck, Nobel Prize-winning Father of Quantum Theory)

Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding. (Freeman Dyson)

I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science. (Albert Einstein)[SPIRITUALITY]

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend upon the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving. (Albert Einstein)

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. (Albert Einstein)

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness, in a descending spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. (Albert Einstein)

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right. (Confucius)

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. (John Maynard Keynes)

All great truths begin as blasphemies. (George Bernard Shaw)

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires. (Katherine Fullerton)

What we can call salvation belongs to the time before death.
If you don't break your ropes while you are alive
Do you think ghosts will do it for you afterwards?
What is found now is found then. (Kabir)

Never give in, never give in,
Never, never, never, never
— in nothing, great or small,
large or petty — never give in
except to convictions of honor and good sense (Sir Winston Churchill)

Put pep in your step; put glide in your stride! (Echo Lake Running Camp Motto)

The worst boss anyone can have is a bad habit. (Monte Crane)

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. (George Bernard Shaw)

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. (C. S. Lewis)

Difficulty is actually the atmosphere surrounding a miracle, or a miracle in its initial stage. Yet if it is to be a great miracle, the surrounding condition will not simply be a difficulty but an utter impossibility. And it is the clinging hand of His child that makes a desperate situation a delight to God. (Mrs. L. B. Cowman)

First fall in love with the price, then fall in love with the item. (Paul Vella)

Worry is assuming a responsibility that God never intended for us to have. (Anonymous)

Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt. (Gladiators' Prayer)

If you don't read the paper you are uniformed. If you do read the paper you are mis-informed. (Mark Twain)

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you, it's what you leave behind you when you go. (Doug Johnson)

Forcing life to go down a particular path often leads to dissatisfaction and failure. The solution is detachment — letting go of specific outcomes — playing full out, not worrying or caring about how things turn out. The surest way to detach from one outcome is to reattach yourself to a more empowering outcome: serving others, replacing a bad habit with a good one, or focusing on the present. (Stephen Shapiro)

Some people, no matter how old they get never lose their beauty — they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. (Martin Buxbaum)

"It's a small world."
Sometimes it is not the size of the world that we overestimate but the link between us all that we underestimate. (Anonymous)

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. (G. K. Chesterton)

There is no such thing as success without successors. (Don Osmon)

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all. (Helen Keller)

Too blessed to be stressed; too anointed to be disappointed. (Joel Osteen)

Listen carefully to what I am saying — and be wary of the shrewd advice that tells you how to get ahead in the world on your own. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Stinginess impoverishes. (Mark 4:24-25 MSG)

God's will is not something you learn, it's a process to which you submit. (Anonymous)

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. (Dr. Leo Buscaglia)

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. (Paul Boese)

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)

When faced with a wildfire, most people instinctively grab a fire hose. The best thing they could do is to awaken 50 sleeping firemen. (Ralph Winter)

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. (Margaret Mead)

When I was born, people were smiling and I was crying. When I die, I hope that people will cry and I will smile. (Anonymous)

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points (Knute Rockne)

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. (Henry Ford)

Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much because they live in the great twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt)

God has had it with the proud,
But takes delight in just plain people. (1 Peter 4:5 MSG)

Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. God's righteousness doesn't grow from human anger. So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life. (James 1:19-21 The Message)

Don't tell God how big your mountains are ...
Tell your mountains how big your God is!!!! (Joel Olsteen)

Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.)

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. (Jean Jacques Rousseau)

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. (Willa Cather)

Brothers, you are Christ to the world. Christ has no hands but your hands touch and bless and heal,
no feet but your feet to lead men in the path of truth,
no arms but your arms to gather the scattered,
no tongue but your tongue to cheer a suffering mankind,
no heart but your heart to love, to pity, to care. (Francis of Assisi)

If the trials of many years were gathered into one, they would overwhelm us; therefore, in pity to our little strength, He sends first one, and then another, then removes both, and lays on a third, heavier, perhaps, than either; but all is so wisely measured to our strength that the bruised reed is never broken. We do not enough look at our trials in this continuous and successive view. Each one is sent to teach us something, and altogether they have a lesson which is beyond the power of any to teach alone. (H.E. Manning)

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. (G. K. Chesterton)

Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. (William Penn)

As is our confidence, so is our capacity. (William Hazlitt)

When you die are you planning to be in the smoking or Non-Smoking section? (Anonymous)

Aspire to inspire before you expire. (Anonymous)

Meeting someone is chance, being friends is choice, loving someone is beyond our control. (Anonymous)

"Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain." I SAY LET IT RAIN! (Julie)

All prayers are good when they are accompanied by good intentions and good will. (Padre Pio)

Snow flakes are frail but if enough of them stick together they can stop traffic. (Anonymous)

Tithe if you love Jesus, because any fool can honk. (Anonymous)

No man is honored for what he received in life; he is honored for what he gave away (Calvin Coolidge)

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. (Kahlil Gibran)

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. An ounce of intuition is worth a pound of tuition. (Anonymous)

Cure for resentment: Give up the hope that the past can be different (Oprah Winfrey)

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. (Agnes Repplier)

I believe that the primary moral principles on which all others depend are rationally perceived. We 'just see' that there is no reason why my neighbour's happiness should be sacrificed to my own, as we 'just see' that things which are equal to the same thing are equal to one another. (C.S. Lewis)

Ignorance wasn't always bliss, but being stupid worked like a charm. (Diane Lando)

The fall leaves sound like they are in a hurry to join the wind to trap one last bit of life and take it with them (Diane Lando)

Then the new earth and sky, the same yet not the same as these, will rise in us as we have risen in Christ. And once again, after who knows what aeons of the silence and the dark, the birds will sing out and the waters flow, and lights and shadows move across the hills and the faces of our friends laugh upon us with amazed recognition. (C.S. Lewis)[HEAVEN DEATH]

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being. (Jane Wyman)

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. (Anonymous)

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts. (Charles Rosin)

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. (T.S. Eliot)

One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life. (Real Live Preacher)

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. (Anne Tyler)

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. (Marva Collins)

Law of Logical Argument: Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about. (Anonymous)

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go.... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. (Gloria Naylor)

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another. (Ellen Goodman)

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. (Mary Worth)

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part. (Aimee Mullins)

There is no getting at our God sometimes because of the multitude of our friends; but when a man is so poor, so friendless, so helpless that he has nowhere else to turn, he flies into his Father's arms, and is blessedly clasped therein! Oh, tempest-tossed believer, it is a happy trouble that drives thee to thy Father! (Charles H. Spurgeon)

We didn't fence you in. The smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren't small, but you're living them in a small way. (2 Cor. 6:12 MSG)

So often, whether for good or ill, one's inner state seems to have so little connection with the circumstances. (C.S. Lewis)

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. (Plato)

Countless people pray far more than they know. Often they have such a "stained-glass" image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they are experiencing is prayer and so condemn themselves for not praying. (Richard J. Foster)

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. (Adele Brookman)

Compared to what's coming, living conditions around here seem like a stopover in an unfurnished shack, and we're tired of it! We've been given a glimpse of the real thing, our true home, our resurrection bodies! The Spirit of God whets our appetite by giving us a taste of what's ahead. He puts a little of heaven in our hearts so that we'll never settle for less. (2 Cor. 5:4b-5 MSG)

Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong; I cannot. If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. (C.S. Lewis)

There is a field out beyond the place of right and wrong; I'll meet you there. (Rumi)

How you deal with the issue is the issue. (Ron Hulnick)

What you focus on expands. (Ron & Mary Hulnick)

I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, "It tastes sweet, does it not?"
"You've caught me," grief answered, "and you've ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow, when you know it's a blessing." (Rumi)

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off? (Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider)

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none. (Ben Shahn)

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that "achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success." (Helen Hayes)

We've all met a certain type of spiritual person. She's a wonderful person. She loves the Lord. She prays and reads the Bible all the time. but all she thinks about is herself. She's not a selfish person. But she's always at the center of everything she's doing. "How can I witness better? How can I do this better? How can I take care of this person's problem better?" It's me, me, me disguised in a way that is difficult to see because her spiritual talk disarms us. (Eugene Peterson)

There is an intimacy with God, but it's like any other intimacy; it's part of the fabric of your life. In marriage you don't feel intimate most of the time. Nor with a friend. Intimacy isn't primarily a mystical emotion. It's a way of life, a life of openness, honesty, a certain transparency. (Eugene Peterson)

One of my favorite stories is of Teresa of Avila. She's sitting in the kitchen with a roasted chicken. And she's got it with both hands, and she's gnawing on it. Just devouring this chicken. One of the nuns comes in shocked that she's doing this, behaving this way. She said, "When I eat chicken, I eat chicken; when I pray, I pray." (Eugene Peterson)

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. (Norman Mailer)

Remember that all worlds come to an end and that noble death is a treasure no one is too poor to buy. (C.S. Lewis)

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift. (C.S. Lewis)

The last thing I wish is to arouse factual curiosity about the details of the afterworld. (C.S. Lewis)

When you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy that requires a lot of work that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day will bring. (Susan Polis Schutz)

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again. (Og Mandino)

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. (Bertha Calloway)

I thought I would have to teach my son about the world, turns out I have to teach the world about my son. They see a boy who doesn't speak, I see a miracle who doesn't need words. (Jayna Sattler)

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. (Henry David Thoreau)

Daniel purposed in his heart. (Daniel 1:8)

Morality is never a question of geography. (Rodney Griffen)

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth. (Robinson Jeffers)

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.. (William Penn)

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure. (Lawana Blackwell)

What Satan has put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they could 'be like gods' — could set up on their own as if they had created themselves — be their own masters — invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God. And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history — money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery — the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. (C.S. Lewis)

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. (Denis Watley)

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
but beautiful old people are works of art. (Anonymous)

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power. (Ninon de Lenclos)

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

We have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people. (C.S. Lewis)

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. (Maria Edgeworth)

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. (Sydney Smith)

If God will bring you to it; He will bring your through it. (Anonymous)

Happy moments, praise God.
Difficult moments, seek God.
Quiet moments, worship God.
Painful moments, trust God.
Every moment, thank God.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. (E. H. Chapin)

Do not judge and you will never be mistaken. (Jean Jacques Rousseau)

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. (Kent Nerburn)

The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have. (Edward Clarke)

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. (Ludwig van Beethoven)

To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation. (Victor Hugo)

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. (Kahlil Gibran)

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. (Sam Ewing)

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. (Seneca)

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving — not giving and taking. (Joyce Grenfell)

I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. (John Keats)

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing. (Catherine de Hueck)

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. (Dr. David M. Burns)

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough. (Nancy Spain)

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. (Lynn Johnston)

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. (Lois McMaster Bujold)

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. (C.S. Lewis)

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. (C.S. Lewis)

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act. (Barbara Hall)

A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you. (Joseph Rickaby)

Courage is saying, "Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else." (Anna Lappe)

He demands our worship, our obedience, our prostration. Do we suppose that they can do Him any good, or fear, like the chorus in Milton, that human irreverence can bring about 'His glory's diminution'? A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. (C.S. Lewis)

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? (Frank Scully)

(A Devil speaking) And all the time the joke is that the word 'Mine' in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either Our Father or the Enemy will say Mine of each thing that exists, and specially of each man. They will find out in the end, never fear, to whom their time, their souls, and their bodies really belong certainly not to them, whatever happens. (C.S. Lewis)

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. (Baruch Spinoza)

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. (Roberto Benigni)

For believers there are no questions, and for unbelievers there are no answers. (C.S. Lewis)

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. (G. E. Lessing)

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union. The Christian attitude does not mean there is anything wrong about sexual pleasure, any more than about the pleasure of eating. It means that you must not isolate that pleasure and try to get it by itself, any more than you ought to try to get the pleasure of taste without swallowing and digesting, by chewing things and spitting them out. (C.S. Lewis)

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. (William Cowper)

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask — half our great theological and metaphysical problems — are like that. (C.S. Lewis)

When disaster strikes, understanding of God is at risk. Unexpected illness or death, national catastrophe, social disruption, personal loss, plague or epidemic, devastation by flood or drought, turn men and women who haven't given God a thought in years into instant theologians. Rumors fly: "God is absent." ... "God is angry" ... "God is playing favorites, and I'm not the favorite" ... "God is ineffectual" ... "God is holding a grudge from a long time ago, and now we're paying for it." (Eugene Peterson)

There is a sense in which catastrophe doesn't introduce anything new into our lives. It simply exposes the moral or spiritual reality that already exists but was hidden beneath an overlay of routine, self-preoccuption, and business as usual. (Eugene Peterson)

There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God') suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us? (C.S. Lewis)

Enemy-occupied territory — that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage. (C.S. Lewis)

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. (Henri Bergson)

Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having. (Margaret Lee Runbeck)

Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is an illusion and try to 'cure' it: and this assumption they make not as professional psychologists but as amateur philosophers. (C.S. Lewis)

This is one of the miracles of love; it gives ... a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. (C.S. Lewis)

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. (Moshe Dayan)

The great triumph is not in your authority over evil, but in God's authority over you and presence with you. Not what you do for God but what God does for you — that's the agenda for rejoicing. (Luke 11:20 MSG)

Statistics are like a lamppost to a drunken man — more for leaning on than illumination. (David Brent)

The concept that treats prayer as if it were a supplemental booster in getting some project off the ground makes the project primary and the prayer secondary. Prayer was never meant to be incidental to the work of God. It is the work. (Arthur Matthews)

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully. (Kahlil Gibran)

If you just use my words in Bible studies and don't work them into your life, you are like a dumb carpenter who built a house but skipped the foundation. When the swollen river came crashing in, it collapsed like a house of cards. It was a total loss. (Matthew 6:49, The Message)

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation. (John Gray)

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use — of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public. (Robert F. Kennedy)

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. (Charles Dickens)

A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam. (C.S. Lewis)

Evil comes from the abuse of free will. (C.S. Lewis)

You're familiar with the old written law, 'Love your friend,' and its unwritten companion, 'Hate your enemy.' I'm challenging that. I'm telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the energies of prayer. (Matthew 5:43-44, The Message)

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. (Albert Einstein)

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedest is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God. (C.S. Lewis)

Besides living in very simple accommodations, Taylor periodically went through his books and his wardrobe to see what he could give to others. As his guideline, he asked what he would be ashamed of still having if the Lord were to return that day. (Meg Crossman)

No test or temptation that comes your way is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All you need to remember is that God will never let you down; he'll never let you be pushed past your limit; he'll always be there to help you come through it. (1 Cor. 10:13, MSG)

There are no extraordinary men..., just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. (Admiral William Frederick Halsey)
(Christian paraphrase) There are no great Christians, just ordinary Christians like you and I, that are yielded to the Holy Spirit, therefore used by God to do great work.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best (Philip James Bailey)

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see. (C.S. Lewis)

I know nothing about sex because I was always married. (Zsa Zsa Gabor)

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well. (C.S. Lewis)

If I have seen farther than others it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. (Isaac Newton)

Pygmies who stand on the shoulders of giants see farther than the giants. (Bernard of Chartres)

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch. (James Beard, celebrated chef)

Though the superstitions of the heathen were a thousand times stronger than they are, and the example of the Europeans a thousand times worse; though I were deserted by all and persecuted by all, yet my faith, fixed on the sure Word would rise above all obstructions and overcome every trial, God's cause will triumph (William Carey)

Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path. (Real Live Preacher)

When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.(Real Live Preacher)

It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us.(Real Live Preacher)

There isn't much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren't really living without it. (Real Live Preacher)

Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing. (Real Live Preacher)

God, I don't have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it. (Real Live Preacher)

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God's existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith. (Real Live Preacher)

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We're looking for something, though we're not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist. (Real Live Preacher)

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer. (Real Live Preacher)

Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect. (Real Live Preacher)

Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way. (Real Live Preacher)

It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on. (Real Live Preacher)

You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists. (Real Live Preacher)

Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.

The "interior castle" of the human soul, as Teresa of Avila called it, has many rooms, and they are slowly occupied by God, who allows us time and room to grow. That is a crucial aspect of the divine conspiracy. (Dallas Willard)

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. (Cato, the Elder)

The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky. The lie is that only big will do; only big will change the world, so everyone will be kind to each other and the killing will stop.
Big is the magic we look for first, but grace is what makes things work out against all odds. If it were too big, it might sweep away all the bits of knowledge and insight we're granted as we go along. If it were too big, it couldn't get through the almost invisible cracks and holes in our walls, in our stone hearts; knowledge comes in tendrils. (Anne Lamott)

Human beings can't make one another really happy for long. (C.S. Lewis)

If we take the imagery of Scripture seriously, if we believe that God will one day give us the Morning Star and cause us to put on the splendour of the sun, then we may surmise that both the ancient myths and the modern poetry, so false as history, may be very near the truth as prophecy.... We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumor that it will not always be so. (C.S. Lewis)

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. (Henry David Thoreau)

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. (C.S. Lewis)

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. (Helen Keller)

To think that the spectre you see as an illusion does not rob him of his terrors: it simply adds the further terror of madness itself — and then on top of that the horrible surmise that those whom the rest have called mad have, all along, been the only people who see the world as it really is. (C.S. Lewis)

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. (Emily Dickenson)

I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. (C.S. Lewis)

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

Some will not be redeemed. There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than this if it lay in my power. But it has the full support of Scripture and, specially, of Our Lord's own words; it has always been held by Christendom; and it has the support of reason. If a game is played, it must be possible to lose it. If the happiness of a creature lies in self-surrender, no one can make that surrender but himself..., and he may refuse. (C.S. Lewis)

...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. (Woodrow Wilson)

When He said, 'be perfect', He meant it. He meant that we must go in for the full treatment. It is hard; but the sort of compromise we are all hankering after is harder — in fact, it is impossible. (C.S. Lewis)

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. (D.H. Lawrence)

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. (Helen Keller)

An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons — marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning. (C.S. Lewis)

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. (David Lloyd George)

If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell. (C.S. Lewis)

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. (Sallust)

Civil society, given a chance, works far better on its own than statisticians can conceive. The government sits atop it like a parasite, and is most often a major threat to its smooth functioning. (Gene Callahan)

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself..., as if the good Lord had nothing to do but exist! There have been some who were so occupied in spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ. Man! Ye see it in smaller matters. Did ye never know a lover of books that with all his first editions and signed copies had lost the power to read them? Or an organiser of charities that had lost all love for the poor? It is the subtlest of all the snares. (C.S. Lewis)

Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy. (C.S. Lewis)

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture.... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. (Norman Vincent Peale)

I have come to the conviction that if you cannot translate your thoughts into uneducated language, then your thoughts are confused. (C.S. Lewis)

Better than if there were thousands of meaningless words is one meaningful word that on hearing brings peace. (Upanishads)

Worry is a misuse of imagination. (Dan Zadra)

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. (Henry Emerson Fosdick)

Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me — watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly. (Matthew 11:28-30 MSG)

We should mind humiliation less if we were humbler. (C.S. Lewis)

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. (Oprah Winfrey)

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. (C.S. Lewis)

There is no good in trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why he used material things like bread and wine to put new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it. (C.S. Lewis)

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. (Plato)

Be wary of false preachers who smile a lot, dripping with practiced sincerity. Chances are they are out to rip you off some way or other. Don't be impressed with charisma; look for character. (Matthew 7:15 MSG)

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it were very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment. (C.S. Lewis)

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. (Garrison Keillor)

In prayer there is a connection between what God does and what you do. You can't get forgiveness from God, for instance, without also forgiving others. If you refuse to do your part, you cut yourself off from God's part. (Matthew 6:14-15 MSG)

Your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes wide in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light. 23 If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar. If you pull the blinds on your windows, what a dark life you will have! (Matthew 6:22 MSG)

Be especially careful when you are trying to be good so that you don't make a performance out of it. It might be good theater, but the God who made you won't be applauding. (Matthew 6:1 MSG)

It is better to wear out than to rust out. (Bishop Richard Cumberland)

Perhaps in the soul, as in the soil, those growths that show the brightest colours and put forth the most overpowering smell have not always the deepest root. (C.S. Lewis)

But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him. (C.S. Lewis)

God touched Jacob's strength (the thigh muscle is the strongest in the body) and turned it into weakness. From that day forward, Jacob walked with a limp so he could never run away again.
If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people. (Rick Warren)

Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic. (Vance Havner)

God has never been impressed with strength or self-sufficiency. In fact, he is drawn to people who are weak and admit it. (Rick Warren)

In order to be of service to others we have to die to them; that is, we have to give up measuring our meaning and value with the yardstick of others..... Thus we become free to be compassionate. (Henri Nouwen)

And if someone takes unfair advantage of you, use the occasion to practice the servant life. (Matthew 5:41 MSG)

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can. (John Wesley)

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me. (John Bunyan)

Holy living consists of doing God's work with a smile. (Mother Theresa)

Hence, nearly all vices are rooted in the future. Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. (C.S. Lewis)

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way. (Buddha)

God develops the fruit of the Spirit in your life by allowing you to experience circumstances in which you're tempted to express the exact opposite quality!
Character development always involves a choice, and temptation provides that opportunity. (Rick Warren)

Don't give up, grow up. (Rick Warren)

If you look at the world you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ you'll be at rest (Corrie ten Boom)

Everything that happens to a child of God is Father — filtered, and He intends to use it for good even when Satan and others mean it for bad. (Rick Warren)

When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus. (Joni Eareckson Tada)

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. (Swedish Proverb)

Sadly, a quick review of many popular Christian books reveals that many believers have abandoned living for God's great purposes and settled for personal fulfillment and emotional stability. that is narcissism, not discipleship. (Rick Warren)

How could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back — if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory? (C.S. Lewis)

If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger — we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again. (Sharon Salzberg)

Disillusionment with our local church is a good thing because it destroys our false expectations of perfection. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

He who loves his dream of community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

People don't care what we know until that know that we care. (Anonymous)

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. (Rick Warren)

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. (Thomas Bailey)

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. (Oliver Windell Holmes)

A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. (C.S. Lewis)

Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24 7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume — snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world.... (Hugh Elliott)

While there are illegitimate parents, there are no illegitimate children. (Rick Warren)

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God "Thy will be done" and those to whom God says, "All right then, have it your way."

For this is the end of all the stories.... But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world... had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the great Story, which no one on earth has read, which goes on forever and in which every chapter is better than the one before. (C.S. Lewis)

It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our final day (Matthew Henry)

Christians should carry spiritual green cards to remind us that our citizenship is in heaven. (Rick Warren)

All that is not eternal is eternally useless (C.S. Lewis)

When you think about a problem over and over in your mind, that's called worry. When you think about God's Word over and over in your mind, that's meditation (Rick Warren)

It's not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters. (Mother Theresa)

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved: we are, as Newman said, rebels who must lay down our arms. (C.S. Lewis)

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. (George Sand)

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers. (Brenda Ueland)

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick. (Rabbi Harold Kushner)

The possibility of pain is inherent in the very existence of a world where souls can meet. When souls become wicked they will certainly use this possibility to hurt one another; and this, perhaps, accounts for four-fifths of the sufferings of men. (C.S. Lewis)

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. (Henry J. Kaiser)

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. (Golda Meir)

I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people. (Leona Helmsly)

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy. (Samuel Goldwyn)

Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless. (Bertrand Russell)

Hell is a state of mind..., and every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind — is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakable remains. (C.S. Lewis)

Underpromise; overdeliver. (Tom Peters)

What is to give light must endure burning. (Victor Frankl)

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God. (C.S. Lewis)

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. (Christina Baldwin)

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. (Mary Pettibone Poole)

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal. (Mike Ditka)

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. (Clarence Darrow)

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact — not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. (Shimon Peres)

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth." (Peter McWilliams)

For human beings, you need two hugs a day to survive, four hugs for maintenance, six hugs to grow. (Virginia Satir)

If somebody hugs you, you know you must be there or they'll go through you. (Dr. Leo Buscaglia)

Never forget that we are all still "the early Christians." The present wicked and wasteful divisions between us are, let us hope, a disease of infancy; we are still teething. (C.S. Lewis)

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. (Harper Lee)

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. (Yugoslav proverb)

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. (Unknown)

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny. (Sam Donaldson)

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it. (Margaret Cho)

[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.(Napoleon Bonaparte)

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint — and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. (Oprah Winfrey)

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. (Anton Chekhov)

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world. (Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider)

For the Church has no beauty but what the Bride-groom gives her; He does not find, but makes her, lovely. (C.S. Lewis)

Don't argue with an idiot. People watching might not be able to tell the difference. (Anonymous)

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it...? Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief. (C.S. Lewis)

It is very strange that the years teach us patience — that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. (Elizabeth Taylor)

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. (Helen Hayes)

Sin will take you farther than you ever thought you'd stray
Sin will leave you so lost, you think you'll never find your way
Sin will keep you longer than you ever thought you'd stay
Sin will cost you more than you ever thought you'd pay. (Anonymous)

If you would judge of the lawfulness or the unlawfulness of pleasure, then take this simple rule: Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, and takes off the relish of spiritual things — that to you is sin. (Susannah Wesley)

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. (C.S. Lewis)

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else. (Jane Austen) [RACISM DISCRIMINATION]

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. (Helen Keller)

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience. (C.S. Lewis)

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. (Abraham Lincoln)

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth. (Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003)

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. (Chinese proverb)

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with. (Lois McMaster Bujold)

When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own. (Real Live Preacher)

Make your choice, adventurous stranger, strike the bell and bide the danger, or wonder 'till it drives you mad, what would have happened if you had. (C.S. Lewis)

When we're stripped of all our worldly possessions and all our fame, family, friends, we all face death alone. But it's that solitude in death that's our common bond in life. I know it's ironic, but that's just the way things are.... Only when we understand all is vanity, only then, it isn't. (Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider — Northern Exposure)

Life is full of obstacle illusions. (Grant Frazier)

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. (Charlotte Bronte)

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. (Albert Einstein)

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. (Seneca)

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it. (Anonymous)

Never let your inferiors do you a favor — it will be extremely costly. (H. L. Mencken)

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere. (Jane Austen)

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. (Ursula K. LeGuin)

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. (Somerset Maugham)

Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move. (Real Live Preacher)

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it. (Les Brown)

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill. (Shinichi Suzuki)

...that is very like the problem of all of us: to dress our souls not for the electric lights of the present world but for the daylight of the next. The good dress is the one that will face that light. For that light will last longer. (C.S. Lewis)

If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as you think they do. (Julie Morgenstern)

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. (Will Rogers)

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you. (Lisa Alther)

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. (Bertrand Russell)

I have always had a kind of longing for death.... It was when I was happiest that I longed most. (C.S. Lewis)

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy. (C.S. Lewis)

Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice. (Minna Thomas Antrim)

Far better things lie ahead than anything we leave behind. (C.S. Lewis)

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something. (Lois McMaster Bujold)

Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress. (C.S. Lewis)

A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind. (Leon Tec)

If you don't risk anything you risk even more. (Erica Jong)

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them. (Brittany Murphy)

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. (Hyman Rickover)

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. (Elizabeth Bowen)

Any community's arm of force — military, police, security — needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. (Lois McMaster Bujold)

It has all been very interesting. (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, last words, 1762)

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. (Plutarch)

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent. (Krishnamurti)

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself because it is not there. There is no such thing. (C.S. Lewis)

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. (Aristotle)

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last. (Greg Evans)

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. (Somerset Maugham)

Only the mediocre are always at their best.(Jean Giraudoux)

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. (Lord Chesterfield)

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. (Reggie Leach)

I think all Christians would agree with me if I said that though Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes. But this is near the stage where the road passes over the rim of our world. No one's eyes can see very far beyond that: lots of people's eyes can see further than mine. (C.S. Lewis)

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. (Thomas Fuller) [DRINK]

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. (Helen Keller)

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it. (Jesse Stuart)

You only live once — but if you work it right, once is enough. (Joe E. Lewis)

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible. (C.S. Lewis)

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. (Leonardo da Vinci)

For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes. (Dag Hammarskjold)

When we feel stuck, going nowhere — even starting to slip backward — we may actually be backing up to get a running start. (Dan Millman)

It is not our abilities that determine our success in life, it is the choices we make. (Albus Dumbledore, JK Rowling)

...the human soul was made to enjoy some object that is never fully given — nay, cannot even be imagined as given — in our present mode of spatiotemporal experience. This desire was, in the soul, as the Seige Perilous in Arthur's castle, the chair in which only one could sit. And if nature makes nothing in vain, the One who sits in the chair must exist. (C.S. Lewis)

If anybody really wants to know him [Satan] better I would say to that person, "Don't worry. If you really want to, you will. Whether you'll like it when you do is another question." (C.S. Lewis)

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. (Aristotle)

What you cannot enforce, do not command. (Sophocles)

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. (Margaret Fairless Barber)

...never, here or anywhere else, let us think that while anthropomorphic images are a concession to our weakness, the abstractions are the literal truth. Both are equally concessions; each singly misleading, and the two together, mutually corrective. (C.S. Lewis)

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace. (John Dryden)

There's a difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good. (Anonymous)

Courage is being scared to death — but saddling up anyway. (John Wayne)

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. (Arthur Hays Sulzberger)

Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders. (Bob Moawad)

I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) was precisely nothing: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in "the High Countries." (C.S. Lewis)

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it. (Sharon Salzberg)

The ancestor of every action is a thought. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming — "WOW — What a Ride!" (Anonymous)

There are still some fundamentalist separatists around, but most evangelicals, whether within their denominations or not, move rather blithely in a pattern (or in the chaos of) ad hoc witness and activity (e.g., "parachurch") that pays little attention to historical confessional definition. (Martin Marty)

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end 'Thy will be done.' All that are in Hell, choose it. (C.S. Lewis)

One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish [for] two reasons: (1) It raises scruples when we don't keep the routine; and (2) It raises presumptions when we do. Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real charity and faith. (C.S. Lewis)

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. (Colin Powell)

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find — at the age of fifty, say — that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about.... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you. (Agatha Christie)

For both the seed and the soul, there is need for patience. Growth can seldom be forced in nature. Whether it is producing a tree or a human personality, nature unfolds its growth slowly, silently. (Morton Kelsey)

No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive. (Dr. Joyce Brothers)

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often more) worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. (C.S. Lewis)

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. (Carl Jung)

Think of yourself just as a seed, waiting patiently in the earth — waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener's good time — up into the Real world, the Real waking. I suppose that all our present life, looked back on from there, will seem but a drowsy half-waking. We are here in the land of dreams. But cock-crow is coming. It is nearer now than when I began this letter. (C.S. Lewis)

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. (Thomas Carlyle)

I don't like generalisms such as 'the Germans' or 'the Americans.' I am of the opinion that there are no 'bad' peoples, only individuals or groups of individuals who can be either good or bad. Even 'bad' peoples have good things about them, and 'good' peoples have 'bad' things about them. The truth is never black and white. It is somewhere between. (Dr. Karl-Wolfgang Daum)

It is terrible to find how little progress one's philosophy and charity have made when they are brought to the test of domestic life. (C.S. Lewis))MARRIAGE)

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise. (Denise Levertov)

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. (John Updike)

Joy is not in things; it is in us. (Richard Wagner)

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is. (John Lancaster Spalding)

(Two prayers for aging grace)

Hallow our lives.
Bring us home. (Carole Stoneking)

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. (Ben Franklin)

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. (Cherie Carter-Scott)

Christ did not teach and suffer that we might become, even in the natural loves, more careful of our own happiness. If a man is not uncalculating towards the earthly beloveds whom he has seen, he is none the more likely to be so towards God whom he has not. We shall draw neared to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. (C.S. Lewis)

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. (Amos Bronson Alcott)

Quotations are true levelers.
They give, to all who will faithfully use them, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of the human race. (William Ellery Channing)

Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say. (Matthew Trump)

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. (Seneca)

The challenge of death comes to us all, and no one can die for another. Everyone must fight his own battle with death by himself, alone. ... I will not be with you then, nor you with me. (Martin Luther)

Joy is prayer.
Joy is strength.
Joy is love.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. (Mother Theresa)

Time is:
Too slow for those who Wait,
Too swift for those who Fear,
Too long for those who Grieve;
Too short for those who Rejoice;
But for those who Love,
Time is Eternity. (Henry Van Dyke)

God, give me strength to face a fact though it slay me. (Thomas H. Huxley)

Pleasure in the job put perfection in the work. (Aristotle)

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? (L. M. Montgomery)

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful. (Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay)

Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated. (Paulette Bates Alden)

I see no sin committed but that I might have committed it. (Anonymous)

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. (Sir Francis Bacon)

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. (Norman Podhoretz)

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. (Theodore Roosevelt)

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it. (Ugo Betti)

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. (Maxine Hong Kingston)

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world. (Al Franken)

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man...It is the comparison that makes you proud; the pleasure of being above the rest. (C.S. Lewis)

You Can't Always Get What You Want, But If You Try, Sometimes You Find You Get What You Need. (Mick Jagger)

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. (Henry C. Link)

The definition of a rut is: a grave with both ends knocked out of it. (Anonymous)

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested in anything, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

If you punish out of love instead of anger, you'll never love it, and if you never love it, you'll avoid it whenever possible. (Andrew Peterson)

Old age ain't no place for sissies. (Bette Davis)

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. (Catherine)

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb ... and I'm also not blonde. (Dolly Parton)

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. (Gloria Steinem)

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are. (Noah Porter)

Affection, as distinct from charity, is not a cause of lasting happiness. Left to its natural bent affection becomes in the end greedy, naggingly solicitous, jealous, exacting, timorous. (C.S. Lewis)

An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)

There's nothing meaner than a Christian when he is mean. (J. Vernon McGee)

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor around the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life. (C.S. Lewis)

I never feel age.... If you have creative work, you don't have age or time. (Louise Nevelson)

If you don't find quantum physics to be bewildering, you don't really understand quantum physics. (Niels Bohr)

There are two equal and opposite errors into which can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. (C.S. Lewis)

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. (Rita Mae Brown)

Anger is only one letter short of danger. (Anonymous)

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. (Dan Rather)

Holding onto fear and other assorted emotional baggage is much like holding onto a 20 pound watermelon; you can't get close enough to someone to give them a good hug. (Po Bronson)

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. (Lillian Hellman)

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one. (C.S. Lewis)

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. (Confucius)

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. (Joseph Campbell)

The average teenager in America watches 21 to 29 hours of TV per week. The average [father] spends seven minutes a week with his kids. (Walt Larimore)

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy. (C.S. Lewis)

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. (Dr. Laura Schlessinger)

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let every on know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. (James A. Garfield)

A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for! (Howard Hendricks)

I believe there are five measurements of spiritual growth: knowledge, perspective, conviction, skills, and character. These five levels of learning are the building blocks of spiritual maturity. (Rick Warren)

Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside. (Anonymous)

It's a social and political system rooted in mavericks, innovation, risk-taking, open intellectual argument, impatience, creative change, failure, the frontier spirit, competition, and a compulsion to get ahead. (Daniel Henninger)

I look at the world upside down, as God does. Instead of seeking out people who stroke my ego, I find those whose egos need stroking; instead of important people with resources who can do me favors, I find people with few resources; instead of the strong, I look for the weak; instead of the healthy, the sick. Is not this how God reconciles the world to himself? (Philip Yancey)

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. (C.S. Lewis)

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. (Herbert Bayard Swope)

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness. (Louise Erdrich)

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. (Benjamin Disraeli)

And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes. (C.S. Lewis)

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. (Vernon Sanders Law)

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. (Henry David Thoreau)

Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty. (Jefferson Davis)

No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep on picking ourselves up each time. We shall of course be very muddy and tattered ' by the time we reach home, but the bathrooms are all ready, the towels put out, and the clean clothes in the airing cupboard. The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give it up. It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us: it is the very sign of His presence. (C.S. Lewis)

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. (Arthur Brisbane)

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. (Evan Esar)

If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door. (Thomas Secker)

One of the great difficulties is to keep before the audience's mind the question of Truth. They always think you are recommending Christianity not because it is true but because it is good.... You have to keep forcing them back, and again back, to the real point. (C.S. Lewis)

The reason quiet time is so difficult is because whenever we have a quiet time, the only person we have to deal with is ourselves. (Anonymous)

Everyone seems normal until you get to know them. (Anonymous)

If you add a little and do this often, soon that little will become great. (Hesiod)

...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. (Voltaire)

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well. (Publilius Syrus)

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. (Horace)

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self respect springs.(Joan Didion)

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty. Now we bleat like sheep for security. Norman Vincent Peale)

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. (Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.)

...those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.... (Ben Franklin)[PRIDE]

There is more truth said in jest than in truth. (Shakespeare)HUMOR)

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. (C.S. Lewis)

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. (Robert Fripp)

More and more clearly one sees how much of ones' philosophy and religion are mere talk: the boldest hope is that concealed somewhere within it there is some seed however small of the real thing. (C.S. Lewis)

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. (John Wayne)

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. (Wendell Johnson)

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. (Elizabeth Bibesco)

I never learned from a man who agreed with me. (Robert Heinlein)

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. (Somerset Maugham)

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet. (Ann Landers)

In our age there is no such thing as "keeping out of politics." All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. (George Orwell)

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. (Harriet Lerner)

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts — for support rather than for illumination. (Andrew Lang)

To please God...to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness...to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son — it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is. (C.S. Lewis)

I don't sleep with married men, if you want to know. But I certainly have. I did a lot of stuff before I got sober that I wouldn't do anymore. But there wasn't a single thing that I'd do that Jesus would say, "Forget it, you're out. I've had it with you, try Buddha!" (Ann Lammott)

Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. (Pythagoras)

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us. (Marcel Proust)

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep. (Socrates)

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day. (Elbert Hubbard)

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, we guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. (Agnes de Mile)

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. (Eric Hoffer)

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Remember when you talk you only repeat what you already know, but if you listen you may learn something. (Amish saying)

A person who lives for himself never knows the real joys of life. (Amish saying)

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. (Woodrow Wilson)

A theology which denies the historicity of nearly everything in the Gospels to which Christian life and affections and thought have been fastened for nearly two millennia — which either denies the miraculous altogether or, more strangely, after swallowing the camel of the Resurrection strains as such gnats as the feeding of the multitudes — if offered to the uneducated man can produce only one or other of two effects. It will make him a Roman Catholic or an atheist. (C.S. Lewis)

An optimist is the human personification of spring. (Susan J. Bissonette)

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. (Richard Feynman)

Never ruin an apology with an excuse. (Kimberly Johnson)

Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?' (Johann K. Lavater)

No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty. (Leon Wieseltier)

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. (Samuel Johnson)

Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision. (Hsi-Tang)

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket! (Will Rogers)

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. (E.W. Howe)

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. (Crowfoot)

Showing people that you sincerely care about them can often be as easy as listening to them. (Brian Koslow)

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. (Mark Twain)

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time — pills or stairs. (Joan Welsh)

Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies. (Ken Wilbur)

Cultivate a healthy cynicism and you will have no trouble distinguishing the weeds from the vegetables in your garden, and your yield will be plenty. (Jozef Wroblewski)

We want a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbow's end, never honest, nor kind, nor happy now, but always using as mere fuel wherewith to heap the altar of the Future every real gift which is offered them in the Present. (Screwtape Letters)

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. (Peggy Noonan)

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one. (Seneca)

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. (William Blake)

God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down. (C.S. Lewis)

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. (Gregg Easterbrook)

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle. (French saying)

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. (John Muir)

Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. (Ellie Katz)

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. (African proverb)

The only way I think I could thank God is by doing kind things to the people who need me now for I understand what it means to be desperate and lonely. (Magnolia Pitiquen)

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail. (Woodrow Wilson)

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. (Umberto Eco)

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will? (Thomas á Kempis)

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. (Thomas á Kempis)

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. (Don Wilder and Bill Rechin)

Life doesn't happen to us, it happens from us. (Mike Wickett)

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. (Christopher Morley)

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. (William James)

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit. (Sir Walter Scott)

When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made. (Anonymous)

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. (Michelangelo)

You unlock the door with the key of imagination... (Rod Sterling)

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. (Francis Bacon)

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. (Paulo Freire)

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. (William Arthur Ward)

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. (H.U. Westermayer)

. . . making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. (Stephen R. Covey)

Health is not simply the absence of sickness. (Hannah Green)

If you treat people right they will treat you right — ninety percent of the time. (Theodore Roosevelt)

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke. (Brendan Francis)

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. (J.C. Watts)

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. (Spanish proverb)

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. (Marcus T. Cicero)

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. (Marion Wright Edelman)

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. (Carl Jung)

In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation. (Jacques Barzun)

The best armor is to keep out of range. (Italian proverb)

Just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other. And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do. (Anonymous)

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. (George Santayana)

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. (Dorothy L. Sayers)

The world of dogmatic Christianity is a place in which thousands of people of quite different types keep on saying the same thing, and the world of 'broad-mindedness' and watered down 'religion' is a world where a small number of people (all of the same type) say totally different things and change their minds every few minutes. We shall never get re-union with them. (C.S. Lewis)

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. (Chinese proverb)

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. (W. W. Ziege)

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. (Francesca Reigler)

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. (Malcolm X)

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. (John D. Rockefeller)

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high. (Mary H. Waldrip)

The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded. (Hasidic saying)

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. (Robert Frost)

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside. (Stephen R. Covey) [PRIORITY]

Probably the most honest 'self-made man' ever was the one we heard say: 'I got to the top the hard way — fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way.' (James Thom)

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. (Ellen Parr)

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. (Japanese proverb)

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. (Jane Addams)

If you see a whole thing — it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. (Ursula Le Guin)

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

[In regard to the varying effectiveness of different kinds of placebos], capsules containing colored beads are more effective than colored tablets, which are superior to white tablets with corners, which are better than round white tablets. Beyond this, intramuscular saline injections are superior to any tablet but inferior to intravenous injections. Tablets taken from a bottle labeled with a well-known brand name are superior to the same tablets taken from a bottle with a typed label. My favorite is a doctor who always handled placebo tablets with forceps, assuring the patient that they were too powerful to be touched by hand. (Max Velmans)

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.... How much longer must we play at deadly war games before we heed the plaintive pleas of the unnumbered dead and maimed of past wars? (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do. (Nan Fairbrother)

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. (Cleveland Amory)

The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life. (Carl Van Vechten)

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. (Albert Schweitzer)

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. (Isaac Newton)

The heart has its reasons of which the reason knows nothing.... It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. (Blaise Pascal)

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart..... Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. (Hannah More)

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree (Miguel de Unamuno)

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. (Victor Frankl)

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. (Joan Didion)

You read about all these Terrorists — most of them came here legally, but they hung around on these expired visas, some for as long as 10-15 years. Now, compare that to Blockbuster; you are two days late with a video and those people are all over you. Let's put Blockbuster in charge of immigration. (Anonymous)

Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view. (George Bush)

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of greatest complexity; can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. (Tolstoy)

Everything is always okay in the end, if it's not okay, then it's not the end. (Anonymous)

We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way. (Gamal Abdel Nasser)

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. (Anne-Sophie Swetchine)

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. (Calvin Coolidge)

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. (Will Rogers)

How, then, it may be asked, can we ... avoid [God]? In our own time and place it is extremely easy. Avoid silence, avoid solitude, avoid any train of thought that leads off the beaten track. Concentrate on money, sex, status, health and (above all) on your own grievances. Keep the radio on. Live in a crowd. (C.S. Lewis)

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. (Evelyn Underhill)

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it. (Lawana Blackwell)

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices...Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and a good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom we regard as fiends (C.S. Lewis)

Far from aspiring to higher reasoning, man is not aware that higher reasoning exists. He classes his own mental processes as being of the same sort as the genius of Einstein. Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal. (Robert Heinlein)

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. (Henry Ford)

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. (Henry L. Doherty)

Easy reading is damned hard writing. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. (Swedish Proverb)

You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange. (A.K. Ramanujan)

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart — and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love. (Karl von Bonstetten)

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. (Frank Crane)

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. (Ben Franklin)

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. (Spanish proverb)

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. (Harry Truman)

Character is what you are in the dark. (Dwight L. Moody)

[We] have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion... Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. (John Adams)

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size. (Mark Twain)

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. (Orson Scott Card)

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. (Plato)

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. (Abraham Lincoln)

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience? (Thomas J. Watson)

We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are. (Anais Nin)

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. (A.A. Milne)

The day that Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they make vacuum cleaners. (Curry Muncher)

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. (Satchel Paige)

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering. (Arthur C Clarke)

Experiences are the spectacles of intellect. (Arab proverb)

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight.... The truly wise person is color-blind. (Albert Schweitzer)

If you know you're going to look back on today and laugh, you might as well start laughing now. (Anon)

There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." (John Brunner)

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note — torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. (Henry Ward Beecher)

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. (Mark Twain)

I know why dog is god spelled backward. They love with every ounce of their being. (Carolyn Shafer)

I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of those prayers down through the centuries, we would be so paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives. (Peter Kreeft, Professor of Philosophy, Boston College)

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. (Francis Bacon)

No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.(Robert Louis Stevenson)

Get what you can and keep what you have; that's the way to get rich. (Scottish proverb)

If some Christians that have been complaining of their ministers had said and acted less before men and had applied themselves with all their might to cry to God for their ministers had, as it were, risen and stormed heaven with their humble, fervent, and incessant prayers for them, they would have been much more in the way of success. (Jonathan Edwards)

It is better to be un-informed than ill-informed. (Keith Duckworth)

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right. (Mario Cuomo)

I don't put anything in writing. If it's important enough, you shouldn't, and if it is not important enough, why bother? (Ditta Beard)

It isn't hard to be good from time to time . . .. What's tough is being good every day. (Willie Mays)

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of discussion. (Plato)

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. (Ausonius)

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. (Dave Meurer)

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment. (George E. Woodberry)

Jealousy is the greatest of all sufferings, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it. (Paul De Gondi)

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. (Chinese proverb)

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. (Benjamin Disraeli)

. . . if you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it. (Lord Brabizon)

Knowing that intercessory prayer is our mightiest weapon and supreme call for Christians today, I pleadingly urge our people everywhere to pray.... Let there be prayer at sun-up, at noon day, at sundown, at midnight, all through the day. Let us all pray for our children, our youth, our aged, our pastors, our homes. Let us pray for our churches. Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word, 'concern' for those who have never known Jesus Christ and redeeming love, for moral forces everywhere, for our national leaders. Let prayer be our passion. Let prayer be our practice. (General Robert E. Lee)

The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions. (Calvin Coolidge)

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. (George Sand)

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness — simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain. (George Sand)

(A devil speaking) About the general connection between Christianity and politics, our position is more delicate. Certainly we do not want men to allow their Christianity to flow over into their political life, for the establishment of anything like a really just society would be a major disaster. (C.S. Lewis)

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. (Lillian Dickson)

My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own. (William Orville Douglas)

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.... If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats: it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me an ill-tempered man: it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am. (C.S. Lewis)

The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go down in the record book, but you don't have anything tangible to hold on to. But having a baby — there isn't any comparison. (Chris Evert Lloyd)

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself 'make things go' and creates confidence. (Anne O'Hare McCormick)

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. (Jonathan Kozol)

There's no right way of writing. There's only your way. (Milton Lomask)

Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory. (Douglas McArthur)

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. (Madeleine L'Engle)

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. (Sir Henry Taylor)

A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live. (A.W. Tozer)

Avoid all disrespect to or contempt of the religion of the country and its ceremonies. Prudence, policy, and a true Christian spirit will lead us to look with compassion upon their errors without insulting them. While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious of violating the rights of conscience in others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to him only in this case they are answerable. (George Washington)

You have put together many notes. But they lack ... legato. Simplicity is the final accomplishment — and the most difficult. (Chopin, in the movie Impromptu)

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. (Rita Mae Brown)

Look at this rose. You can see its beautiful colors, you can enjoy its fragrance — but it still has thorns. If you want to, you can press them into your flesh until you bleed. Thoughts are like that.... (Marjorie Holmes)

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. (Nicolas Caussin)

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them — every day begin the task anew. (Saint Francis de Sales)

You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others — something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. (Albert Schweitzer)

During a British conference on comparative religions, experts from around the world were discussing whether any one belief was unique to the Christian faith. They began eliminating possibilities. Incarnation? Other religions had different versions of gods appearing in human form. Resurrection? Again, other religions had accounts of return from death. The debate went on for some time until C. S. Lewis wandered into the room. "What's the rumpus about?" he asked, and heard in reply that his colleagues were discussing Christianity's unique contribution among the world's religions. In his forthright manner, Lewis responded, "Oh, that's easy. It's grace."

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. (Joseph Addison)

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. (Joseph Addison)

Postmodern is akin to a new language: using personal experience, community living, and storytelling as a better means of sharing the truth — Jesus Christ, according to John 14:6 — with an upcoming generation. (Kent Clayton)

A decade ago, the eminent theologian Michael Novak argued that Western liberal democracy is like a three-legged stool. Political freedom is the first leg, economic freedom the second, and moral responsibility the third. Weaken any leg, and the stool topples. (Charles Colson)

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest." I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have — When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do. (Harry Truman)

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust. (Henry L. Stimson)

Success is relative: it is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. (T.S. Elliot)

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. (Mignon McLaughlin)

The maid who sweeps her kitchen is doing the will of God just as much as the monk who prays — not because she may sing a Christian hymn as she sweeps but because God loves clean floors. The Christian shoemaker does his Christian duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship. (Martin Luther)

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants. (Walter Winchell)

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. (Tallulah Bankhead)

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. (Blaise Pascal)

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. (Albert Einstein)

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. (Lord Macaulay)

We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Whoever only speaks of God, but seldom to God, easily leases body and soul to idols. The Christian thus places his whole future in jeopardy by a stunted prayer life. (Carl F.H. Henry)

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. (Dalai Lama)

Never spend your money before you have it. (Thomas Jefferson)

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste they hurry past it. (Soren Kierkegaard)

Adversity introduces a man to himself. (Anonymous)

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely. (Ugo Betti)

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it. (Harry Emerson Fosdick)

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. (William Hazlitt)

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest — never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership. (Ann Landers)

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do? (Epicurus)

One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. (Sigmund Freud)

Education is learning what you didn't know you didn't know. (George Boas)

Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be? (Anonymous)

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. (John Andrew Holmes)

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. (Carl Jung)

When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have. (Kathleen A. Sutton)

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself. (Jose Ortega y Gasset)

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. (Henry Kissinger)

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. (Henry Ward Beecher)

The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating. (Heard in a neuropsychology classroom)

Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success. (Burt Lawlor)

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. (Ben Franklin)

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails. (Robert Half)

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. (Yogi Berra)

God gave us two ends — one to sit on and one to think with.
Success depends on which one you use. Head you win, tail you lose. (Anonymous)

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. (Abraham Lincoln)

Be a fountain, not a drain. (Rex Hudler)

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, INDUSTRY and FRUGALITY; i.e., Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. He that gets all he can honestly and saves all he gets (necessary expenses excepted) will certainly become rich, if that Being who governs the world, to Whom all should look for a blessing on their honest endeavors, doth not in His wise Providence otherwise determine. (Ben Franklin)

I am praying that you will find a steady and reliable source of income commensurate with your needs and stretching your great talent. (Dan Shafer)

Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand spent 14 years in prison for preaching the gospel. Although his captors smashed four of his vertebrae and either cut or burned 18 holes in his body, they could not defeat him. He testified, "Alone in my cell, cold, hungry, and in rags, I danced for joy every night."

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others. (Marcel Proust)

There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails. (Richard Rybolt)

I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked. 29 Who is weak, and I do not feel weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not inwardly burn? (2 Cor. 11:27, 29)

When I go aside in order to pray, I find my heart unwilling to approach God; and when I tarry in prayer my heart is unwilling to abide in Him. Therefore I am compelled first to pray to God to move my heart into Him, and when I am in Him, I pray that my heart remain in Him. (John Bunyan)

Real integrity stays in place whether the test is adversity or prosperity. (Chuck Swindoll)

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal — and soon they'll forget my number. (Edith Armstrong)

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. (Peter Drucker)

To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him. (Daniel Considine)

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing. (William Feather)

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. (Agnes Repplier)

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. (William Congreve)

I will not gratify the Devil by being discouraged. (Spiros Zhodiates)

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. (Margaret Bonnano)

Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place. (Ben Azai, Mishna)

As we move forward from Sept. 11, let us not simply focus on the future in an effort to forget the past. Let us remember who we were on Sept. 10 and the event that changed all that. Let us use our darkness to become people of deeper character, faith and love. This will thwart our enemies and honor our lost loved ones in a way no memorial or tribute ever could. (Lisa Beamer)

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned. (Buddha)

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. (Nelson Mandela)

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. (Harriet Braiker)

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. (Confucius)

Humor is a rubber sword — it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. (Mary Hirsch)

Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations. (Ron Dentinger)

The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of his tail. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. (African proverb)

Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has. (Elizabeth O'Connor)

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. (Leo Aikman)

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. (Jimmy Johnson)

A man should carry two stones in his pocket. On one should be inscribed "I am but dust and ashes." On the other, "For my sake was the world created." And he should use each stone as he needs it. (Anonymous Rabbi)

Truth is not in the middle, and not in one extreme, but in both extremes. (Charles Simeon)

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites by keeping them both and keeping them both furious. (G. K. Chesterton)

In times of desolation, we must never make a change but stand firm and constant in the resolutions and determination in which we were the day before the desolation or in the time of the preceding consolation. (Ignatius Loyola)

If one wishes to eliminate uncertainty, tension, confusion, and disorder from one's life, there is no point in getting mixed up either with Yahweh or with Jesus of Nazareth. (Horace Greeley)

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. (Erica Jong)

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. (Ivern Ball)

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. (Charles Buxton)

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. (Daniel Auber)

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. (Brigitte Bardot)

Exercising faith in the present means trusting God to work through the encounter before me despite the background clutter of the rest of my life. As the recovery movement has taught us, our very helplessness drives us to God. (Philip Yancey)

Sometimes a light surprises
The Christian while he sings.
It is the Lord who rises
With healing in his wings. (William Cowper)

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. (Sir Richard Francis Burton)

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight. (Vaclav Havel)

I do not get to know God, then do His will; I get to know Him more deeply by doing His will. (Philip Yancey)

In order to arrive at what you are not you must go through the way in which you are not. (TS Eliot)

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. (Anonymous)

Consciousness is a specific biological product of the brain. A computer program simulating the brain would no more be able to be conscious than a program simulating digestion would be able to eat a pizza. (John Sedarle)

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. (Epictetus)

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. (Erich Fromm)

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. (Carl Jung)

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. (Peter Marshall)

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. (Horace Mann)

Once, when I asked an elderly friend if she regretted not having had children, she responded in her characteristically forthright manner. "It was the great tragedy of my life." Each life must hold one, I think: one pain that overarches and obscures all others, one haunting irreversible fault for which one can never atone (Nancy Mairs)

God does not make our lives all shipshape, clear, and comfortable. Never try to get things too clear. Religion can't be clear. In this mixed-up life there is always an element of unclearness. I believe God wills it so. There is always an element of tragedy. How can it be otherwise if Christianity is our ideal? (Baron Friedrich von Hugel)

Suffering is surely good or bad only according to the results it produces. Had it been a bad thing in itself, the Son of God would not have taken it for us chosen instrument for the cure of the world.... I do not mean by this that we should lessen our attempts to alleviate pain and remove the causes of distress, for such is the simple duty of charity; I only mean that what we cannot remove is not wasted (R. Somerset Ward)

And who's to say which is more incredible — a man who raises the dead ... or a God who weeps (Ken Gire)

Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. (Mary C. Crowley)

Coincidences are spiritual puns. (G. K. Chesterton)

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. (Alan Simpson)

We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them. (Duc de La Rochefoucauld)

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. (Dr. Seuss)

It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road. (Bumper sticker)

The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all. (Maurice Maeterlinck)

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. (Margaret Millar)

Two monologues do not make a dialogue. (Jeff Daly)

The business of a cathedral is to offer praise to God day in and day out, seven days a week. "Some people say it's best when there's nobody here at all," he said, "just the choir, the angels, and the snow outside." He smiled, "I'm not quite so other-worldly as that. I like to have a few people come. (Tim Stafford, interviewing N.T. Wright)

Theology is marginal for the church today because it can't offer spiritual nurture to people. If it could reclaim spiritual nurture as one of its tasks, theology might be able to help the church instead of having to be warded off by the church. (Ellen Charry)

Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition, when infinite joy is offered to us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in the slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. (C.S. Lewis)

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

But man, proud man,
Dressed in a little brief authority,
... Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep. (Shakespeare)

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights. (Henry David Thoreau)

Government is, abstractedly taken, an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. (Thomas Jefferson)

Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy. (Proudhon)

It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. (Abraham Lincoln)

Error, indeed, is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced (ridiculous as the expression may seem) more true than truth itself. (Irenaes)

Justice of the Peace (to bride who teaches linguistics): "Do you take this man to be your lawful wedded husband in good times or in bad? Bride (after brief pause: "In good times."

Food peppers everyday speech to such an extent that it's practically unavoidable. We fish for compliments, beef about injustice, butter up the powers that be, and ham it up to get a laugh. A pretty woman's a hot tomato, a brainy student's an egghead, a muscled he-man is beefcake, and a coward is just plain chicken. We table discussions, tap sources, cook up new ideas, pull down menus on our computer screens, and offer recipes for success. We toast the bride and groom, roast our fellows at honorific dinners, cajole people who are slow as molasses to wake up and smell the coffee, act cool as a cucumber when we get caught with our hands in the cookie jar, and turn beet red when we are obliged to eat our words. (Edythe Preet)

It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence. (John Adams)

God has no religion. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here. (Patrick Henry)

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
Wherefore, let thy voice rise like a fountain for me night and day.
For what are men better than sheep or goats that nourish a blind life within the brain,
If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer both for themselves and those who call them friend?
For so the whole round earth is every way bound by gold chains about the feet of God. (Alfred Tennyson)

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. (Annie Dillard)

I read an article that said the way to achieve inner peace is to finish things I have started. Today I finished two bags of potato chips, a chocolate pie, a bottle of wine and a small box of chocolate candy. I feel better already! (Anonymous)

Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice. (Chinese proverb)

When you lose, don't lose the lesson. (Chinese proverb)

For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world. (John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony)

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. (Ambrose Bierce)

The heights by great men reached and kept
     Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
     Were toiling upward in the night.
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. (Albert Schweitzer)

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. (Immanuel Kant)

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. (Salvador Dali)

If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him. (Dr. R.A. Torrey)

I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection; that he would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for brethren who have served in the field; and finally that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation. (George Washington)

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. (John Galsworthy)

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. (Albert Schweitzer)

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book. (Abraham Lincoln)

May the strength of God pilot us, may the power of God preserve us.
May the wisdom of God instruct us, may the hand of God protect us.
May the way of God direct us, may the shield of God defend us.
May the host of God guard us against the snares of the evil one, against the temptations of the world. (St. Patrick)

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but wings. (Phillips Brooks)

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries and comforts of life; who has covered our infancy with His providence and our riper years with His wisdom and power, and to whose goodness I ask you to join in supplications with me that He will so enlighten the minds of your servants, guide their councils, and prosper their measures that whatsoever they do shall result in your good, and shall secure to you the peace, friendship, and approbation of all nations. (Thomas Jefferson)

Prayer is not the mystical experience of a few special people, but an aggressive act.... an act that may be performed by anyone who will accept the challenge to learn to pray. (Jack Hayford)

Paul Harvey RIDDLE:
When asked this riddle, 80% of kindergarten kids got the answer, compared to 17% of Stanford University seniors.
What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die?

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children. (Kahlil Gibran)

People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve. (John Miller)

Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. (Ambrose Bierce)

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. (John Bunyan)

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm. (Euripides)

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. (Lyndon B. Johnson)

Prayer does not need proof, it needs practice. (William Evans)

Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your children. (Anonymous)

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. (Albert Schweitzer)

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. (Sean O'Casey)

Lord, take me where You want me to go;
Let me meet who you want me to meet;
Tell me what You want me to say, and
Keep me out of Your way.
(Found in the pocket of the Fire Department chaplain who died in the World Trade Center attack.)

Be patient and wait for the Lord to act. (Psalms 37:7 Good News)

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. (Aristotle)

heteronym (HET-uhr-uh-nim) noun
A word that has the same spelling as another word but with a different pronunciation and meaning.
     Listen, readers, toward me bow.
     Be friendly; do not draw the bow.
     Please don't try to start a row.
     Sit peacefully, all in a row.
     Don't act like a big, fat sow.
     Do not the seeds of discord sow.

capitonym (KAP-i-toh-NIM) noun
A word that changes pronunciation and meaning when it is capitalized.
     Job's Job
          In August, an august patriarch
          Was reading an ad in Reading, Mass.
          Long-suffering Job secured a job
          To polish piles of Polish brass.
     Herb's Herbs
          An herb store owner, name of Herb,
          Moved to a rainier Mount Rainier.
          It would have been so nice in Nice,
          And even tangier in Tangier.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them. Norman Vincent Peale)

A full cup must be carried steadily. (English proverb)

America was founded by people who believed that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it's all right to keep asking if we're on His side. (Ronald Regan)

I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there; in her fertile fields and boundless prairies, and it was not there; in her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went to the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. (Alexis de Tocqueville)

A godly man is a praying man. As soon as grace is poured in, prayer is poured out. Prayer is the soul's traffic with Heaven; God comes down to us by His Spirit, and we go up to Him by prayer. (T. Watson)

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. (Anonymous)

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. (Ben Franklin)

Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally — I do not mean figuratively, but literally impossible for us to figure what that loss would be if these teachings were removed. We would lose all the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals; all the standards towards which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves. (Theodore Roosevelt)

The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you've been in the race. (Nellie Hershey Smith)

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise
     As praises from the men,
whom all men praise. (Abraham Cowley)

Simplicity doesn't mean to live in misery and poverty. You have what you need, and you don't want to have what you don't need. (Charan Singh)

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart. (Thomas Fuller)

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. (Voltaire)

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life — so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. (Matt Cartmill)

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income. (Logan Pearsall Smith)

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. (Calvin Coolidge)

God works in mysterious ways,
His wonders to perform.
He plants his footsteps on the sea
And rides upon the storm.

America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. No ambition, no temptation, lures her to thought of foreign dominions. The legions which she sends forth are armed, not with the sword, but with the cross. The higher state to which she seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God. (Calvin Coolidge)

Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision. (Anonymous)

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. (Thomas Jefferson)

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. (John F. Kennedy)

I question myself more than anyone I know. Some might consider this a weakness, but I believe it is one of my greatest strengths. (Marilyn vos Savant)

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? (Logan Pearsall Smith)

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. (Frederic Chopin)

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. (James A. Garfield)

Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious. (William Hale White)

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart — and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love. (Karl Viktor von Bonstetten)

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him ... two. (Norman Douglas)

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you've got. (Alain — Emile August Chartier)

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything, or nothing, about it. (Olin Miller)

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. (Eric Hoffer)

A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools. (Thomas Fuller)

You always pass failure on the way to success. (Mickey Rooney)

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. (Bob Dylan)

The finest amusements are the most pointless ones. (Jacques Chardonnes)

Nature has made us frivolous to console us for our miseries. (Voltaire)

I've never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else. (Josh Billings)

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. (Stephen Leacock)

Never lend books — nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me. (Anatole France)

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. (Paul Harvey)

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! (Abraham Lincoln)

A problem is a chance for you to do your best. (Duke Ellington)

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together. (Bette Davis)

You can never solve a problem at the level at which it was created. You have to go to at least one level beyond. (Albert Einstein)

The awareness of dying for something great and noble, strips death of its absurd character. Not only for those who die, but those who survive (Ignace Lepp)

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant, and fill him with a terrible resolve. (Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto)

An eye for an eye and the whole world ends up blind. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)

...I am moved by notions that are curled around this image and cling to the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing... (T.S. Eliot)

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. (Bonnie Prudden)

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. (Marie Ebner von Eschenbach)

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. (Alistair Cooke)

Men are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ. (Moliere)

The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do. (Donald Riggs)

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. (Marcus Aurelius)

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. (Charles Dickens)

It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered. (Christian Bovee)

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. (Abraham Lincoln)

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. (Louis L'Amour)

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs — jolted by every pebble in the road. (Henry Ward Beecher)

Many of our fears are tissue paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us through them. (Brendan Francis)

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger ' — but recognize the opportunity. (Richard M. Nixon)

Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball. (Mitzi Chandler)

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way around. (David Lodge)

Never have children, only grandchildren. (Gore Vidal)

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. (Blaise Pascal)

Oftentimes excusing of a fault / Doth make the fault the worse by th' excuse. (Shakespeare)

Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends. (William A. Irwin)

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

It is easy to fly into a passion — anybody can do that
     But to be angry with the right person
          to the right extent
          and at the right time
          and with the right object
          and in the right way
     that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it. (Aristotle)

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. (Katherine Mansfield)

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. (Thomas W. Higginson)

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. (Paul McCartney)

The Bell Labs team, whose scientific results appear in today's issue of the British journal Nature, determined that it is theoretically possible to send approximately 100 terabits of information, or roughly 20 billion one-page e-mails, simultaneously per strand of fiber.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. (Art Buchwald)

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as it if had nothing else in the universe to do. (Galileo Galilei)

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. (Henri Frederic Amiel)

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain. (Diane De Pottiers)

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation. (Mike Todd)

It's good to have activities in which you become totally immersed. The fact that you have to focus your mind completely on the task at hand is enormously relaxing, because it doesn't allow you to think about any of your problems while you're doing it. (Dr. Al Aho, Bell Labs)

We should manage our fortunes as we do our health — enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. (Albert Einstein)

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. (Samuel Johnson)

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing. (Bret Harte)

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. (Leonardo da Vinci)

Doubt is not a pleasant mental state but certainty is a ridiculous one. (Voltaire)

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. (John Stuart Mill)

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk or discourse, but to weigh and consider. (Francis Bacon)

My one regret in life is that I'm not someone else. (Woody Allen)

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. (Edith Wharton)

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. (James Thurber)

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. (Helen Keller)

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I always find that statistics are hard to follow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable. (Mrs. Robert A. Taft)

To conclude — you must translate every bit of your Theology into the vernacular. This is very troublesome and means that you can say very little in half an hour, but it is essential. It is also of the greatest service to your own thought. I have come to the conviction that if you cannot translate your thoughts into uneducated language, then your thoughts are confused. (C.S. Lewis)

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. (Samuel Johnson)

I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound — if I can remember any of the damn things. (Dorothy Parker)

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. (Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi)

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart. (C.S. Lewis)

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. (Blaise Pascal)

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Much Madness is divinest Sense
To a discerning Eye
Much Sense — the starkest Madness. (Emily Dickenson)

Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine. (Henry S. Haskins)

When you re-read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before. (Cliff Fadiman)

This morning I threw up at a board meeting. I was sure the cat was out of the bag, but no one seemed to think anything about it; apparently it's quite common for people to throw up at board meetings. (Jane Wagner)

You can't, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately; anyway, you can't get the best out of it. (C.S. Lewis)

Men who never get carried away should be. (Malcolm Forbes)

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing. (John Lennin)

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. (Margaret Atwood)

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more. (Jules Renard)

Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale)

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. (Socrates)

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. (James Gordon, M.D.)

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. (English proverb)

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. (Elbert Hubbard)

They say of some temporal suffering, "No future bliss can make up for it," not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say "Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences" little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin. (C.S. Lewis)

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. (Jules Renard)

Pride, the never failing vice of fools. (Alexander Pope)

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride. (J. D. Salinger)

I quote others only the better to express myself. (Michel de Montaigne)

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends. (Arlene Francis)

I know some good marriages — marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other. (Erica Jong)

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. (Edgar Watson Howe)

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. (Jawaharlal Nehru)

There is very little difference between people, but that little difference makes a big difference. (Anonymous)

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. (Dorothy Parker)

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. (Felix Frankfurter)

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'Id rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.' (Tallulah Bankhead)

No change in circumstance can repair a defect in character. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Without discipline, there's no life at all. (Katharine Hepburn)

Nothing makes you feel better than a really sad song. (Garrison Keeler)

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. (Shirley MacLaine)

If you're having trouble starting a conversation talk about movies. Everyone you meet either likes or dislikes or has never seen everything! (Pam Hansen)

You saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son.... (Deut. 1:31)

It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. (Queen Christina, of Sweden)

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. (Seneca)

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. (Samuel Lover)

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. (Anonymous)

She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens. (Michael Arlen)

It is not enough to posses wit. One must have enough of it to avoid having too much. (Andre Maurois)

It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy. (Anon)

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. (Oscar Wilde)

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. (Peter de Vries)

1 Chronicles 4:9 Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him in pain." 10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, "Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!" So God granted him what he requested.

When things go wrong, don't go with them. (Anon.)

It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus: to talk about cost when you are in love with someone is an insult. (Oswald Chambers)

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell)

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. (Helen Keller)

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. (E. H. Chapin)

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. (Will Rogers)

The Greatest Commandment: Everything in your Christian life, everything about knowing Him and experiencing Him, everything about knowing His will, depends on the quality of your love relationship to God. (Henry T. Blackaby)

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. (Bertrand Russell)

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. (Anne Frank)

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship. (Francis Marion Crawford)

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself. (Anais Nin)

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. (Charles Caleb Colton)

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them (Kim Hubbard)

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. (Oprah Winfrey)

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work. (Anatole France)

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them. (Lou Holtz)

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. (Marilyn Ferguson)

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here. (Finley Peter Dunne)

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)

This is what the LORD Almighty says: "The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah. Therefore love truth and peace" (Zechariah 8:19).

By showing Christ's love to homosexuals and abortionists we will enact more moral change than a thousand social agendas will. (Jonathan M. Fritz, St. Louis, MO. CT letter)

All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than he looked for. (C.S. Lewis)

How are you going to keep them down on the farm, after they've seen the farm? (Anonymous)

Open wide your mouth and I will fill it. (Ps. 81:10)

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. (Bertrand Russell)

In conditions of great uncertainty people tend to predict the events that they want to happen actually will happen. (Roberta Wohlstetter)

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate. (Alexander Pope)

You can only predict things after they have happened. (Eugene Ionesco)

The time is always right to do what is right. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. (Stanley Kubrick)

When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats. (Claude Swanson)

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not. (Saint Augustine)

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. (Doris Lessing)

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. (Corrie ten Boom)

There is no inner pain or conflict in heaven. But I think that neither could there be a total separation from the infinite reality of which life on earth is a part, necessarily transmuted into joy. Maybe that moment of relief from earthly pain is drawn out into one eternal laugh. (Peter Newcombe)

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude. (Katherine Mansfield)

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans. (Anonymous)

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. (W. H. Auden)

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. (John Steinbeck)

One should count each day a separate life. (Seneca)

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. (George Bernard Shaw)

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. (Samuel Johnson)

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. (George C. Lorimer)

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death...! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil. (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. (Abigail Van Buren)

Some leaders are born women. (United Nations conference slogan)

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. (Anne Sexton)

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

A friend is someone who knows all about you and likes you just the same (Anonymous small boy)

Never eat more than you can lift. (Miss Piggy)

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business. (Gertrude Stein)

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white. (Eric Hoffer)

A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover. (Alfred North Whitehead)

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. (George Burns)

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant. (Saadi)

The secret of success is constancy of purpose. (Benjamin Disraeli)

An offense against your neighbor builds a fence between you and God. (ODB)

Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they certainly pay for all they get. (Frederick Douglass)

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. (Mary Ellen Kelly)

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. (Abraham Lincoln)

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness. (C.S. Lewis)

There is no cry so good as that which comes from the bottom of the mountains; no prayer half so hearty as that which comes up from the depths of the soul, through deep trials and afflictions. Hence they bring us to God, and we are happier; for nearness to God is happiness. Come, troubled believer, fret not over your heavy troubles, for they are the heralds of weighty mercies. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Revolutions are brought about by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. (Kwame Nkrumah)

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. (Mary Pickford)

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is. (Elbert Hubbard)

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. (Harriet Martineau)

The real test of spiritual focus is being able to bring your mind and thoughts under control. Is your mind focused on the face of an idol? Is the idol yourself? Is it your work? Is it your idea of what a servant should be, or maybe your experience of salvation and sanctification? If so, then your ability to see God is blinded. (Oswald Chambers)[PEACE RESIGNATION ATTITUDE]

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto Me; for I have redeemed thee. (Isaiah 44:22)

It needs more than human skill to carry the brimming cup of mortal joy with a steady hand, yet Paul had learned that skill, for he declares, "In all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry." (Charles H. Spurgeon)

The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It is crammed-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner. (Richard M. Devos)

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. (Anatole France)

Nothing is work unless you would rather be doing something else. (William James)

Prevention is better than cure: it is better to be so well armed that the devil will not attack you, than to endure the perils of the fight, even though you come off a conqueror. Pray this evening first that you may not be tempted, and next that if temptation be permitted, you may be delivered from the evil one. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do. (Anon)

I wanted to be scared again.... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged. (Connie Chung)

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. (Seneca)

There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. (Theodore Roosevelt)

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. (Mark Twain)

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. (Sir Francis Bacon)

I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making — it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't. (Dodie Smith)

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. (Katherine Mansfield)

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

If you are miserable or bored in your work ... or dread going to it ... then God is speaking to you. He either wants you to change the job you are in or — more likely — he wants to change you. (Bruce Larson)

One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent deity of Jesus Christ. (Oswald Chambers)

Whenever we insist that God should give us an answer to prayer we are off track. The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer. (Oswald Chambers)

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. (Don Herold)

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. (Dr. James C. Dobson)

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile.... initially scared me to death. (Betty Bender)

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal. (Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach)

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Heal me of this lust of mine to always vindicate myself. (Saint Augustine)

It will not bother me in the hour of death that I have been 'had for a sucker' by any number of imposters; but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need. (C.S. Lewis)

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. (Ruth E. Renkl)

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. (George Bernard Shaw)

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. (Mary Engelbreit)

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them. (Alfred North Whitehead)

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.(Emily Dickenson)

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. (Hannah Whitall Smith)

One man may be so placed that his anger sheds the blood of thousands, and another so placed that however angry he gets he will only be laughed at. But the little mark on the soul may be much the same in both. (C.S. Lewis)

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness. I will build you up again and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out to dance with the joyful." (Jeremiah 31:3-4)

Cheese — milk's leap toward immortality. (Clifton Fadiman)

I believe in getting into hot water, it keeps you clean. (G. K. Chesterton)

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a person who knows the secret of making his dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage and Constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way. (Walt Disney)

We shall be true and everlasting and really divine persons only in Heaven, just as we are, even now, coloured bodies only in the light. (C.S. Lewis)

There is nothing more tragic in life than the utter impossibility of changing what you have done. (John Galsworthy)

Live a balanced life — Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Robert Fulghum)

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness — or so good as drink. (G. K. Chesterton)

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. (Ann Landers)

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation. (Cherrie Moraga)

The first thing for our soul's health, the first thing for His glory, and the first thing for our own usefulness, is to keep ourselves in perpetual communion with the Lord Jesus, and to see that the vital spirituality of our religion is maintained over and above everything else in the world. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is. (Margaret Mitchell)

Emotion has taught mankind to reason. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)

Christianity is unquestionably a personal experience. It is also unquestionably not a private experience. (William Barclay)

The greatest difficulty spiritually is to concentrate on God, and His blessings are what make it so difficult. Troubles almost always make us look to God, but His blessings tend to divert our attention elsewhere. (Oswald Chambers)

O believer, learn to reject pride, seeing that thou hast no ground for it. Whatever thou art, thou hast nothing to make thee proud. The more thou hast, the more thou art in debt to God; and thou shouldst not be proud of that which renders thee a debtor. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Being born again from above is an enduring, perpetual, and eternal beginning. It provides a freshness all the time in thinking, talking, and living — a continual surprise of the life of God. (Oswald Chambers)

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. (Thornton Wilder)

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. (Mignon McLaughlin)

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image. (Denis Waitley)

No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. (Sigmund Freud)

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. (Francis Bacon)

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. (Robert Frost)

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. (Robert Frost)

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. (Robert Frost)

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. (Robert Frost)

A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel. (Robert Frost)

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. (Robert Frost)

I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed. (Robert Frost)

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. (Robert Frost)

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with. (Robert Frost)

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be. (A.W. Tozer)

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice — any choice will be the right one. (A.W. Tozer)

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me. (A.W. Tozer)

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still. (A.W. Tozer)

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries. (Everett McKinley Dirksen)

She offered her honor, he honored her offer and all night long it was honor and offer. (Anonymous)

The great thing, and the hard thing, is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery. (Janet Erskine Stuart)

Profound truths, by their very nature cannot be 'comprehended' and only unexpectedly do they 'apprehend' us. We strike them glancing blows from left and right and so approximate their position. Like the elephant examined by the blind fakirs, exactly opposite propositions may be the best we ever come up with. (Peter Newcombe)

When you blame others you give up your power to change. (Anon)

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady. (Voltaire)

God loved the world so much that he sent his only son that whoever would believe in him would not perish but have eternal life.
(Pocket Transfer translation)
The person that he trusted him as for God did not die everybody and sent a son of his only one that there was not life of eternity and very liked the world.

One burst of 'I think, therefore I am' reduces to silence a whole volume of 'I think I'll have the Swiss melt and fries,' and permanently props up a man's reputation as a Serious Thinker. (Peter Newcombe)

Presented with a mirror, baboons attack with the intent of eliminating what they perceive to be a perfect threat. For that reason I hope I never meet my mirror if such exists. It's far less unnerving to see others as my 'upline' or 'downline' to borrow a little Amway geshtalt. (Peter Newcombe)

Life is not a quiet pond but a whitewater expedition. Sometimes I almost think I love it. (Peter Newcombe)

When nobody around you measures up, it's time to check your yardstick. (Bill Lemly)

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. (Madeline L'Engle)

If you expect perfection from other people, your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumbling and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped. (Bruce Barton)

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do. (James Barrie)

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. (Mother Theresa)

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. (Grace Murray Hopper)

Gloomy seasons of religious indifference and social sin are not exempted from the divine purpose. When the altars of truth are defiled, and the ways of God forsaken, the Lord's servants weep with bitter sorrow, but they may not despair, for the darkest eras are governed by the Lord, and shall come to their end at His bidding. What may seem defeat to us may be victory to Him. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Life gives a man a true friend and then the true friend gives the man life. (Peter Newcombe)

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. (Bernard de Fontenelle)

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. (Henry David Thoreau)

Some people claim to be seeking "tolerance," but what they are really looking for is affirmation. Anything less, they call "intolerance." (David Block)

Our very business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. (Thomas L. Monson)

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. (Gloria Steinem)

As a parent you just hang on for the ride. (Robert Wagner)

Hell is not other people. Hell is no other people. (Fay Weldon)

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. (Carl Sagan)

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror. (Ken Keyes, Jr.)

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization. (Calvin Coolidge)

Always do more than is required of you. (George Patton)

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. (Helen Keller)

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. (Mark Twain)

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. (Dennis Wholey)

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. (Theodore Roosevelt)

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. (Georg Lichtenberg)

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Ann Landers)

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. (Henrik Ibsen)

In Genesis it says that it is not good for a man to be alone, but sometimes it is a great relief. (John Barrymore)

Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business. (Ben Franklin)

A Liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own. (Frank Dane)

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. (Albert Camus)

To the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name knowledge. (Ambrose Bierce)

A Jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. (Robert Frost)

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. (Thomas Edison)

Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. (John Keats)

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. (Hebrew proverb)

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. (Mignon McLaughlin)

The human mind can bear plenty of reality, but not too much intermittent gloom. (Margaret Drabble)

To give and not to feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. (Max Beerbohm)

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified, if he does it right. (Bill Cosby)

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. (Turkish proverb)

[Experience is] how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other. (Judy Collins)

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. (Miguel de Cervantes)

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires. (Abigail Van Buren)

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. (Sigmund Freud)

The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance. (Baltasar Gracian)

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. (Charles Mingus)

I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes. (Edward Everett to Abraham Lincoln)

A man there was, tho' some did count him mad / The more he cast away, the more he had. (John Bunyan)

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. (Francis Bacon)

Blaming God is evidence that we are refusing to let go of some disobedience somewhere in our lives. But as soon as we let go, everything becomes as clear as daylight to us. As long as we try to serve two masters, ourselves and God, there will be difficulties combined with doubt and confusion. Our attitude must be one of complete reliance on God. Once we get to that point, there is nothing easier than living the life of a saint. We encounter difficulties when we try to usurp the authority of the Holy Spirit for our own purposes. (Oswald Chambers)[PEACE RESIGNATION ATTITUDE]

When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He's so big we can never kill him." But David looked at the same giant and thought, "He's so big, I can't miss."

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? (Frank Scully)

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional. (Anonymous)

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. (Charles Caleb Colton)

I simple cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. (Patricia Moyes)

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. (C.S. Lewis)

It is a sweet sign of a humble and broken heart, when the child of God is willing to obey a command which is not essential to his salvation, which is not forced upon him by a selfish fear of condemnation, but is a simple act of obedience and of communion with his Master. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Quotes are like cactus spines — while otherwise absorbed in the business of living, some small point you make is sure to startle someone. (Peter Newcombe)

I am like a pebble being pushed to the sky by a great mountain rushing up beneath me. (Peter Newcombe)

What a strange and frightening beauty has this life. (Peter Newcombe)

Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold. (Latin proverb)

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. (Conrad Hilton)

Try to understand exactly what loving your neighbor as yourself means. I have to love him as I love myself. Well, how exactly do I love myself? Now that I come to think of it, I have not exactly got a feeling of fondness or affection for myself, and I do not even always enjoy my own society. So apparently "Love your neighbour" does not mean "feel fond of him" or "find him attractive...." That is an enormous relief. (C.S. Lewis)

The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like His. (George MacDonald)

Every Christian can have his body under absolute control for God. God has given us the responsibility to rule over all "the temple of the Holy Spirit," including our thoughts and desires (1 Corinthians 6:19). We are responsible for these, and we must never give way to improper ones. (Oswald Chambers)

People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt. (Mary Pettibone Poole)

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. (Henry David Thoreau)

Who knows what he is told, must know a lot of things that are not so. (Arthur Guiterman)

In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. (Chinese proverb)

What worries you, masters you. (Haddon W. Robinson)

Nothing can be done except little by little. (Charles Baudelaire)

The world belongs to the energetic. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I'm not happy. I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them. (Beverly Sills)

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night. (Marion Howard)

Those who wish to sing always find a song. (Swedish proverb)

You will have many opportunities in life to keep your mouth shut: You should take advantage of every one of them. (Thomas Edison)

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. (George Washington Carver)

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph? (Robert Browning)

God never coerces us. Sometimes we wish He would make us be obedient, and at other times we wish He would leave us alone. Whenever God's will is in complete control, He removes all pressure. (Oswald Chambers)[PEACE RESIGNATION ATTITUDE]

The moral law, ordained by God, does not make itself weak to the weak by excusing our shortcomings. It remains absolute for all time and eternity. If we are not aware of this, it is because we are less than alive. Once we do realize it, our life immediately becomes a fatal tragedy. (Oswald Chambers)[PEACE RESIGNATION ATTITUDE]

He casteth forth His ice like morsels freezing the streams of our delight. He does it all, He is the great Winter King, and rules in the realms of frost, and therefore thou canst not murmur. Losses, crosses, heaviness, sickness, poverty, and a thousand other ills, are of the Lord's sending, and come to us with wise design. Frosts kill noxious insects, and put a bound to raging diseases; they break up the clods, and sweeten the soul. O that such good results would always follow our winters of affliction! (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Amaziah asked the man of God, "But what about the hundred talents I paid for these Israelite troops?" The man of God replied, "The LORD can give you much more than that." (2 Chr 25:9)

He who wraps a threadbare coat about a good conscience has gained a spiritual wealth far more desirable than any he has lost. God's smile and a dungeon are enough for a true heart; His frown and a palace would be hell to a gracious spirit. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

You cannot believe on a half-Christ. We take him for what he is — the anointed Savior and Lord who is King of kings and Lord of all lords! He would not be who he is if he saved us and called us and chose us without the understanding that he can also guide and control our lives. (A.W. Tozer)

Vigorous writing is concise. (William Strunk)

As he saw now, one might as well have thought one could buy a sunset by buying the field from which one had seen it. (C.S. Lewis)

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself. (Brendan Francis)

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. (Albert Camus)

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (I Thessalonians)

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.... There are no ordinary people. (C.S. Lewis)

The proverb warns that, "You should not bite the hand that feeds you." But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. (Thomas Szasz)

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second (Logan Pearsall Smith)

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. (Marilyn vos Savant)

A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement. (Ann Landers)

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. (Charles Dickens)

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you. (Peter Marshall)

We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human life, to live a life "hidden with Christ in God" in our everyday human conditions (Colossians 3:3).

Our human relationships are the very conditions in which the ideal life of God should be exhibited. (Oswald Chambers)[PEACE RESIGNATION ATTITUDE]

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. (Euripides)

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything. (Katharine Hepburn)

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. (William Saroyan)

Repay evil with good and you deprive the evildoer of all the pleasure of his wickedness. (Leo Tolstoy)

How can anyone who is identified with Jesus Christ suffer from doubt or fear! Our lives should be an absolute hymn of praise resulting from perfect, irrepressible, triumphant belief. (Oswald Chambers)

Never assume that you "know" human nature: Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream. (Reinhold Niebuhr)

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. (Ralph W. Sockman)

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile. (Garry Marshall)

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. (Julius Charles Hare)

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. (Francis Bacon)

You need not say, "I am true:" be true. Boast not of integrity, but be upright. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Can a mother forget her little child and not have love for her own son? Yet even if that should be, I will not forget you. See, I have tattooed your name upon my palm, and ever before me is a picture of Jerusalem's walls in ruins. (Isa 49:15-16)

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know. (Mark Twain)

It is easier to stay out than get out. (Mark Twain)

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. (Mark Twain)

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. (Mark Twain)

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. (Mark Twain)

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. (Rabindranath Tagore)

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. (Maya Angelou)

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own necessary vegetation. (Gail Sheehy)

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. (John Wesley)

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right. (H.L. Mencken)

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. (Epictetus)

Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. (C.S. Lewis)

The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. (James Branch Cabell)

The 'C' students run the world. (Harry Truman)

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. (St. Teresa of Avila)

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? (C.S. Lewis)

Dear God: I know you will provide, but why don't you provide until you provide? (Jewish saying)

My personal life may be crowded with small, petty happenings, altogether insignificant. But if I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God. (Oswald Chambers)

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything — or nothing. (Nancy Astor)

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. (Laurence Peter)

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. (Sara Teasdale)

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Do not scold, like a kitchen-girl. No warrior scolds. Courteous words or else hard knocks are his only language. (C.S. Lewis)

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defense against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments.
     By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head. (C.S. Lewis)

Little do we know what may happen to us to-morrow, but this sweet fact may cheer us, that no good thing shall be withheld. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred — this is the law Eternal. (Buddha)

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. (Eric Hoffer)

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you see it again. (Earl Wilson)

There are few women who will admit their age. There are fewer men who will act theirs. (Anonymous)

When a soldier is wounded in battle it is of little use for him to know that there are those at the hospital who can bind up his wounds, and medicines there to ease all the pains which he now suffers: what he needs is to be carried thither, and to have the remedies applied. It is thus with our souls, and to meet this need there is one, even the Spirit of truth, who takes of the things of Jesus, and applies them to us. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

This thing which I have called for convenience the 'Tao' and which others may call Natural Law, or Traditional Morality, or the First Principles of Practical Reason, or the First Platitudes, is not one among a series of possible systems of value. It is the sole source of all value judgments...If the pursuit of scientific knowledge is a real value, then so is conjugal fidelity. The rebellion of new ideologies against the 'Tao' is a rebellion of the branches against the tree; if the rebels could succeed, they would find that they destroyed themselves. The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new primary color, or, indeed, of creating a new sun and a new sky for it to move in. (C.S. Lewis)

We do not need the grace of God to withstand crises — human nature and pride are sufficient for us to face the stress and strain magnificently. But it does require the supernatural grace of God to live twenty-four hours of every day as a saint, going through drudgery, and living an ordinary, unnoticed, and ignored existence as a disciple of Jesus. It is ingrained in us that we have to do exceptional things for God — but we do not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things of life, and holy on the ordinary streets, among ordinary people — and this is not learned in five minutes. (Oswald Chambers)

He who loves praise loves temptation. (Thomas Wilson)

We must adjust ourselves to the Bible — never the Bible to ourselves. (ODB)

We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt. (William Ernest Hocking) [GRACE]

Salvation is a gift to be received — not a goal to be achieved. (ODB)

Prayer does not equip us for greater works — prayer is the greater work.... Prayer is the battle, and it makes no difference where you are.... Yet we refuse to pray unless it thrills or excites us, which is the most intense form of spiritual selfishness.... It is the laboring saint who makes the ideas of his Master possible. (Chambers, Upmost, 10/17/00)

I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill. (Samuel Butler)

Our deepest fear is that we are not inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fears, our presence automatically liberates others. (Nelson Mandela)

We are all angels with only one wing, who can only fly when embracing each other. (Liciano De Crescenzo)

The Holy Spirit is the Physician, but Jesus is the medicine. He heals the wound, but it is by applying the holy ointment of Christ's name and grace. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. (Anonymous)

A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. (Samuel Grafton)

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk or running for office. (Shirley McLaine)

Consistency is only a paste jewel that cheap men cherish. (William Allen White)

A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through. (Laurence J. Peter)

All sunshine makes a desert. (Arabic proverb)

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. (Elbert Hubbard)

The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there. (Gene Brown)

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort; it's not the sort of comfort they supply there. (C.S. Lewis)

Happiness is a choice. Reach out for it at the moment it appears, like a balloon drifting seaward in a bright blue sky. (Adair Lara)

God gives the very best to those who leave the choice to Him. (J. Hudson Taylor)

"The Saints Among Us," is a recent poll completed by George Gallup. This survey reveals that less than 10% of Americans are deeply committed Christians. Gallup says only 6% — 10% have what he termed a "high spiritual faith." The people of this minority group are categorized as particularly influential and happy. These folks are, as Gallup says, "a breed apart." "They are more tolerant of people of diverse backgrounds. They are more involved in charitable activities. They are more involved in practical Christianity. They are absolutely committed to prayer. They are far, far happier than the rest of the population," said Mr. Gallup. (The Houston Post, July 6, 1991, p. E-3)

These small and perishable bodies we now have were given to us as ponies are given to schoolboys. We must learn to manage: not that we may some day be free of horses altogether but that some day we may ride bare-back, confident and rejoicing, those greater mounts, those winged, shining and world-shaking horses which perhaps even now expect us with impatience, pawing and snorting in the king's stables. (C.S. Lewis)

Experience by itself proves nothing. Experience proves this, or that, or nothing, according to the preconceptions we bring to it. (C.S. Lewis)

They do not love who do not show their love. (Shakespeare)

Now I see that nothing but my Lord's own power can save such a naughty mass of wickedness as I am; ordinances fail, even the gospel has no effect upon me, till His hand is stretched out. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilization — these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit — immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. (C.S. Lewis)

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. (Edward P. Tryon)

When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul! (Rabbi Harold Kushner)

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think. (H. L. Mencken)

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love. (Francois de Fenelon)

If your lips would keep from slips,
Five things observe with care:
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
And how and when and where. (Anonymous)

Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it. (ODB)

A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions. (Proverbs 18:1)

We use the means, but the blessing does not spring from the means. We dig a well, but heaven fills it with rain. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

...the trial is not so heavy as it might have been; next, the trouble is not so severe as we deserved to have borne; and our affliction is not so crushing as the burden which others have to carry. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Our heart is like a crooked fence — all the paint in the world won't straighten it out. (ODB)

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants. (Epictetus)

If a thing be right, though you lose by it, it must be done; if it be wrong, though you would gain by it, you must scorn the sin for your Master's sake. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. (Bertrand Russell)

Optimism is an intellectual choice. (Diana Schneider)

Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do Our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys. (C.S. Lewis)

The warfare is not against sin; we can never fight against sin — Jesus Christ conquered that in His redemption of us. The conflict is waged over turning our natural life into a spiritual life. This is never done easily, nor does God intend that it be so. It is accomplished only through a series of moral choices. God does not make us holy in the sense that He makes our character holy. He makes us holy in the sense that He has made us innocent before Him. And then we have to turn that innocence into holy character through the moral choices we make. (Oswald Chambers)

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. (Mother Theresa)

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. (Voltaire)

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either, they keep you. (Frank Crane)

The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself. (Sir Alexander Paterson)

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. (Helen Keller)

Jesus, open my eyes to the needs of Your hurting children. Stretch out my hands touch them all.

Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back (Luke 6:27-36).

Virtue — even attempted virtue — brings light; indulgence brings fog. (C.S. Lewis)

You are beggars at His gate, asking for mercy, and you must needs draw up rules and regulations as to how He shall give that mercy. Think you that He will submit to this? My Master is of a generous spirit, but He has a right royal heart, He spurns all dictation, and maintains His sovereignty of action. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. (Ps 73:23-26)

Always remember that poverty and every other ill, lovingly accepted, has all the spiritual value of voluntary poverty or penance. (C.S. Lewis)

It usually takes two people to make one of them angry. (Laurence Peter) "CONFLICT"> )

Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the mountains... But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree... when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself. (Marcus Aurelius)

Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is for me to have no trouble; never to be fretted or vexed or irritated or sore or disappointed. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord where I can go in and shut the door and kneel to my Father in secret and be at peace.... (Andrew Murrey)

If we have to put one stitch into the garment of our salvation, we shall ruin the whole thing. (Charles H. Spurgeon) "CONFLICT"> )

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When a person is born again from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either starve or nourish that life. Prayer is the way that the life of God in us is nourished. (Oswald Chambers)

It's important to count your blessings, but its more important to make them count (Ziggy, Tom Wilson)

It's never too late — in fiction or in life — to revise. (Nancy Thayer)

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. (Oscar Wilde)

Kind words are always the right kind. (ODB)

In the kingdom of God service is not a stepping-stone to nobility: it is nobility. (T. W. Manson)

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second is disastrous. (Margaret Fontey)

If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. (Max Lucado)

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Victory belongs to the most persevering. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. (Dag Hammarskjold)

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is. (Chuck Reid)

Nowadays, people can be divided into three classes — the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-Not-Paid-for-What-They-Haves. (Earl Wilson)

Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love. There are some things only learned in a fiery furnace. (Oswald Chambers)

There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but ... in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. (Bliss Carm)

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. (Helen Keller)

Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience. (Katherine Tingley)

A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience's time — more than four days — which should be a hanging offense. (Jenkin Lloyd Jones)

My father gave me these hints on speech-making: Be sincere.... be brief.... be seated. (James Roosevelt)

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. (Margaret Mitchell)

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. (Axel Munthe)

You have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until they rest in you. (Saint Augustine)

The true character of the loveliness that speaks for God is always unnoticed by the one possessing that quality. Conscious influence is prideful and unchristian. If I wonder if I am being of any use to God, I instantly lose the beauty and the freshness of the touch of the Lord. "He who believes in Me.... out of his heart will flow rivers of living water" (John 7:38). And if I examine the outflow, I lose the touch of the Lord. (Oswald Chambers)

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing. (Dale Carnegie)

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon. (Susan Ertz)

When God witholds His plan He wants us to look to His heart. (David C. Egner)

Working for the Lord on a daily basis means striving to become the best company president or restaurant dishwasher possible. (Jamie Winship)

When we consider how hard-mouthed we are, it is a wonder that we are not driven with a sharper bit. The thought is full of consolation, that He who has fixed the bounds of our habitation, has also fixed the bounds of our tribulation. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

If mercy be thy friend, mercy will be with thee in temptation to keep thee from yielding; with thee in trouble to prevent thee from sinking; with thee living to be the light and life of thy countenance; and with thee dying to be the joy of thy soul when earthly comfort is ebbing fast. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

A tender heart is the best defense against sin, and the best preparation for heaven. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

"Whoever has been born of God does not sin...." (1 John 3:9). Am I seeking to stop sinning or have I actually stopped? be born of God means that I have His supernatural power to stop sinning. The Bible never asks, "Should a Christian sin?" The Bible emphatically states that a Christian must not sin. The work of the new birth is being effective in us when we do not commit sin. It is not merely that we have the power not to sin, but that we have actually stopped sinning. (Oswald Chambers)

The Lord's strength is ever available; we have but to invoke it, and we shall find it near at hand. If by faith we are depending alone upon the strength of the mighty God of Israel, we may use our holy reliance as a plea in supplication. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. (Victor Hugo)

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. (Chinese proverb)

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already. (C.S. Lewis)

The conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, is to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace. But to will to put it into the mind and heart by force and threats is not to put religion there, but terror. (Blaise Pascal)

The receiving of the Word consists of two parts: attention of mind and intention of will. (William Ames)

I wake up everyday, no matter what anybody says or what goes wrong or whatever, with this overwhelming sense of gratitude. Because it may be that if I hadn't been knocked down in the way I was and forced to come to grips with what I've done, and the consequences of it, in such an awful way, I might not never ever had to really deal with it 100 percent. (Clinton)

A lady once asked John Wesley if he knew that he would die at midnight the next day, how would he spend the intervening time. He replied, "Why, madam, just as I intend to spend it now. I would preach this evening at Gloucester, and again at five tomorrow morning; after that I would ride to Tewkesbury, preach in the afternoon, and meet the societies in the evening. I would then go to Martin's house...talk and pray with the family as usual, retire myself to my room at 10 o'clock, commend myself to my Heavenly Father, lie down to rest, and wake up in glory."

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement! (George W. Truett, quoted in "Toolkit," Cell Church, Winter, 1996, p. 10.)

When God bolts the door, don't try to get in through the window. (Anonymous)

Be wise with speed. A fool at forty is a fool indeed. (Edward Young)

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. (Lisa Alther)

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. (Lord Chesterfield)

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks at Him and bad when it turns away from Him. And the higher and mightier it is in the natural order, the more demonic it will be if it rebels. It's not out of bad mice or bad fleas you make demons, but out of bad archangels. (C.S. Lewis)

O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will. (Saint Augustine)

Once while Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden, he was asked, "What would you do if you suddenly learned that you where to die at sunset today?" He replied, "I would finish hoeing my garden."

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (2 Cor. 4:16-18)

No normal, healthy saint ever chooses suffering; he simply chooses God's will, just as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not. (Oswald Chambers)

Mom, why did you bring that book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. (Theodore Roosevelt)

Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are 'patches of Godlight' in the woods of our experience. (C.S. Lewis)

When we trust God's promises, we won't demand explanations.(ODB)

We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy. (Seneca)

What a glorious hour when God, and not His creatures; the Lord, and not His works, shall be our daily joy! Our souls shall then have attained the perfection of bliss. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. (Leonardo da Vinci)

Anxiety is not only a pain which we must ask God to assuage but also a weakness we must ask Him to pardon — for He's told us take no care for the morrow. (C.S. Lewis)

You never find yourself until you face the truth. (Pearl Bailey)

We are not taken into a conscious agreement with God's purpose — we are taken into God's purpose with no awareness of it at all. We have no idea what God's goal may be; as we continue, His purpose becomes even more and more vague. God's aim appears to have missed the mark, because we are too nearsighted to see the target at which He is aiming. (Oswald Chambers)

In the natural life our ambitions are our own, but in the Christian life we have no goals of our own. We talk so much today about our decisions for Christ, our determination to be Christians, and our decisions for this and that, but in the New Testament the only aspect that is brought out is the compelling purpose of God. "You did not choose Me, but I chose you...." (John 15:16). (Oswald Chambers)

A couple married for 15 years began having more than usual disagreements. They wanted to make their marriage work and agreed on an idea the wife had. For one month they planned to drop a slip in a "Fault" box. The boxes would provide a place to let the other know about daily irritations. The wife was diligent in her efforts and approach: "leaving the jelly top off the jar," "wet towels on the shower floor," "dirty socks not in hamper," on and on until the end of the month. After dinner, at the end of the month, they exchanged boxes. The husband reflected on what he had done wrong. Then the wife opened her box and began reading. They were all the same, the message on each slip was, "I love you!"

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of one candle. (Arthur Gordon) (The actual words were written by a lonely old woman whose pet had been killed by a Nazi bomb.)

Pastor William E. Sangster told of an experience in his youth when he went on a vacation with some friends. Within a short time he had spent all the funds given him for the trip, so he wrote home for more. His father, thinking he should teach his son the value of money, did not respond to the request. Sangster's companions wondered why he had been turned down and suggested several reasons. Young William said to them, "I'll wait till I get home, and he'll tell me himself." (ODB)

Eighty percent of success is showing up. (Woody Allen)

Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real charity and faith. (C.S. Lewis)

He is one and there is no second. (Richard Wurmbrand)

When we become certain that God is going to work in a particular way, He will never work in that way again. (Oswald Chambers)

We are all like the moon, we have a dark side we don't want anyone to see. (Mark Twain)

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. (Socrates)

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly? (Lord Byron)

We should never have the thought that our dreams of success are God's purpose for us. In fact, His purpose may be exactly the opposite. We have the idea that God is leading us toward a particular end or a desired goal, but He is not. The question of whether or not we arrive at a particular goal is of little importance, and reaching it becomes merely an episode along the way. What we see as only the process of reaching a particular end, God sees as the goal itself. (Oswald Chambers)[PEACE RESIGNATION ATTITUDE]

What is my vision of God's purpose for me? Whatever it may be, His purpose is for me to depend on Him and on His power now. If I can stay calm, faithful, and unconfused while in the middle of the turmoil of life, the goal of the purpose of God is being accomplished in me. God is not working toward a particular finish — His purpose is the process itself. (Oswald Chambers)[PEACE RESIGNATION ATTITUDE]

God's training is for now, not later. His purpose is for this very minute, not for sometime in the future. We have nothing to do with what will follow our obedience, and we are wrong to concern ourselves with it. What people call preparation, God sees as the goal itself. (Oswald Chambers)

God's purpose is to enable me to see that He can walk on the storms of my life right now. If we have a further goal in mind, we are not paying enough attention to the present time. However, if we realize that moment-by-moment obedience is the goal, then each moment as it comes is precious. (Oswald Chambers)[PEACE RESIGNATION ATTITUDE]

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts. (Georges Rouault)

If you bow at all, bow low. (Chinese proverb)

The imitation says, "Bear your cross, for if you try to get rid of it you will probably find another and worse one." But there is a brighter side to the same principle. When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given it its place. (C.S. Lewis)

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet. (Frederick Buechner)

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. (Carl Jung)

Solving the income tax — Dave Barry style
How to simplify tax law: Every April 15, lock all members of Congress in prison cells with tax forms and the tax code. Keep them there, without food or water, until they had completed their tax returns and successfully undergone a full IRS audit. Naturally, Mr. Barry says, "this system would probably result in a severe shortage of Congresspersons.... But there might also be some drawbacks." (The LPC Monthly)

There are people who do not accept the full Christian doctrine about Christ but who are so strongly attracted by Him that they are His in a much deeper sense than they themselves understand. (C.S. Lewis)

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing — peace is the measure. (George Melton)

When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse. (Ward Cleaver)

Many people begin coming to God once they stop being religious, because there is only one master of the human heart — Jesus Christ, not religion. (Oswald Chambers)

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. (Abraham Lincoln)

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. (John Dewey)

Jesus said there are times when God cannot lift the darkness from you, but you should trust Him. At times God will appear like an unkind friend, but He is not; He will appear like an unnatural father, but He is not; He will appear like an unjust judge, but He is not. Keep the thought that the mind of God is behind all things strong and growing. Not even the smallest detail of life happens unless God's will is behind it. (Oswald Chambers)

Fill your mind with the thought that God is there. And once your mind is truly filled with that thought, when you experience difficulties it will be as easy as breathing for you to remember, "My heavenly Father knows all about this!" This will be no effort at all, but will be a natural thing for you when difficulties and uncertainties arise. (Oswald Chambers)

If you can say, "Master," if you feel that His will is your will, then you stand in a happy, holy place. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

No Reserve. No Retreat. No Regrets. (William Borden)

In times of revolutionary changes it is the life-long learner who is best able to adapt. (Eric Hofer)

Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose. (Dan McKinnon)

When you can't have what you choose, you choose what you have. (Owen Wister)

Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment. (Motto of Lord Newborough)

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. (Victor Hugo)

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. (C.S. Lewis)

Titus 2:11-14 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope — the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.

God proved his love on the cross. When Christ hung and bled, it was God saying to the world, "I love you." (Billy Graham)

Never look for righteousness in the other person, but never cease to be righteous yourself. We are always looking for justice, yet the essence of the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is — Never look for justice, but never cease to give it. (Oswald Chambers)

There is among Christians far too much inclination to square and reconcile the truths of revelation; this is a form of irreverence and unbelief, let us strive against it, and receive truth as we find it; rejoicing that the doctrines of the Word are unhewn stones, and so are all the more fit to build an altar for the Lord. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

God's altar was to be built of unhewn stones, that no trace of human skill or labour might be seen upon it. Human wisdom delights to trim and arrange the doctrines of the cross into a system more artificial and more congenial with the depraved tastes of fallen nature; instead, however, of improving the gospel carnal wisdom pollutes it, until it becomes another gospel, and not the truth of God at all. All alterations and amendments of the Lord's own Word are defilements and pollutions. The proud heart of man is very anxious to have a hand in the justification of the soul before God; preparations for Christ are dreamed of, humblings and repentings are trusted in, good works are cried up, natural ability is much vaunted, and by all means the attempt is made to lift up human tools upon the divine altar.... The Lord alone must be exalted in the work of atonement, and not a single mark of man's chisel or hammer will be endured. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. (Chinese proverb)

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion. (Henry David Thoreau)

Gen 4:6-7 "Why are you angry?" the Lord asked him. "Why is your face so dark with rage? It can be bright with joy if you will do what you should! But if you refuse to obey, watch out. Sin is waiting to attack you, longing to destroy you. But you can conquer it!" (TLB)

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does. (La Rochefoucauld)

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. (Sir Winston Churchill)

We use God only for the sake of getting peace and joy. We seek only our enjoyment of Jesus Christ, not a true realization of Him. This is the first step in the wrong direction. All these things we are seeking are simply effects, and yet we try to make them causes. (Oswald Chambers)

Instant obedience is the only kind of obedience there is; delayed obedience is disobedience. Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from Grace. (Thomas a Kempis)

Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration. (Sigmund Freud)

I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed. (Mark Twain)

What kind of place is this? It's beautiful: Pigeons fly, women fall from the sky! I'm moving here! (Guido Orefice [Roberto Benigni]

Watching The Patriot, I was reminded of an essay in which G.K. Chesterton argued that so-called moral films — films which oversimplify history and stir partisan sentiments while shutting down people's minds — were a greater peril to society than their lowbrow, allegedly immoral counterparts. (Peter T. Chattaway)

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. (George Elliot)

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out. (C.S. Lewis)

On the outside, it may appear to others that we are winning the battle against sin. But we must stay alert to the sins of the spirit, especially pride. They can cause us to stumble and fall, (ODB)

God has no more precious gift to a church or an age than a man who lives as an embodiment of his will, and inspires those around him with the faith of what grace can do. (Andrew Murray)

Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's beliefs that they "own" their bodies — those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent, and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of another! (C.S. Lewis)

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. (Amelia Burr)

Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity. (John Mitchell Mason)

Words written on the flyleaf of a Bible: "Acknowledgment. Acceptance. Adjustment." (ODB)

God takes us into His darkroom to develop our character. (ODB)

There is a vast difference between devotion to a person and devotion to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause — He proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. (Oswald Chambers)

Trouble does not necessarily bring consolation with it to the believer, but the presence of the Son of God in the fiery furnace with him fills his heart with joy. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines. (C.S. Lewis)

He will allow His Spirit to use whatever process it may take to bring us to obedience. The fact that we insist on proving that we are right is almost always a clear indication that we have some point of disobedience. (Oswald Chambers)

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain. (Andre Gide, 1869-1951)

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. (Cicero, "Pro Plancio," 54 B.C.)

If we neglect our duty, men will not only contented but transported by the mixed novelty and familiarity of snowdrops this January, sunrises this morning, plum pudding this Christmas. ... Only by our incessant efforts is the demand for infinite, or unrhythmical, change kept up. (C.S. Lewis)

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience. (Elbert Hubbard)

When you sing your own praise you are always out of tune. (ODB)

To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, and to know a thing is nothing unless others know you know it. (Charles Neaves)

If ... you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of itself..., then be of good courage, thou art a child of God. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Charlie Hainline is a layman at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is a man who radiates the love of Christ, and is serious about sharing his faith with others. One year, his goal was to lead 1650 people to faith in Christ (5 a day)! Once, he was out witnessing with a couple of other folks, and though he didn't share the gospel, he sat there and smiled broadly as a teammate did. When the teammate was finished and asked if the person would like to trust Christ and receive the gift of eternal life, the person replied, "If being a Christian would make me like him (point to Charlie), I want it!" Charlie's life wasn't a bed of roses by any means. His daughter was kidnapped, killed, and her head was found floating in a canal. When the murderer of his daughter was caught and convicted, Charlie went to jail in order to witness to the man. (Anonymous)

The continual inner-searching we do in an effort to see if we are what we ought to be generates a self-centered, sickly type of Christianity, not the vigorous and simple life of a child of God.... Launch out in reckless, unrestrained belief that the redemption is complete. Then don't worry anymore about yourself, but begin to do as Jesus Christ has said, in essence, "Pray for the friend who comes to you at midnight, pray for the saints of God, and pray for all men." Pray with the realization that you are perfect only in Christ Jesus, not on the basis of this argument: "Oh, Lord, I have done my best; please hear me now." (Oswald Chambers)

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? (Robert Louis Stevenson)

To find fulfillment...don't exist with life — embrace it. (Jim Beggs)

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows. (Sir William Osler)

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Today we have substituted doctrinal belief for personal belief, and that is why so many people are devoted to causes and so few are devoted to Jesus Christ. People do not really want to be devoted to Jesus, but only to the cause He started. (Oswald Chambers)

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all...As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength. (G. K. Chesterton)

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. (Benjamin Jowett, 1817-1893)

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there. (Marcus Aurelius)

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I think every one who has some vague belief in God, until he becomes a Christian, has the idea of an exam, or of a bargain in his mind. The first result of real Christianity is to blow that idea into bits. (C.S. Lewis)

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. (Peter Drucker)

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment. (Robert Benchley)

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. (Seneca)

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest. (Swedish proverb)

We have the idea that we can dedicate our gifts to God. However, you cannot dedicate what is not yours. There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself (see Romans 12:1). (Oswald Chambers)

If you have no good feelings, if you be but willing, you are invited; therefore come! You have no belief and no repentance, — come to Him, and He will give them to you. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

One who makes it a rule to be content in every part and accident of life because it comes from God praises God in a much higher manner than one who has some set time for the singing of psalms. (William Law)

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. (Josh Billings)

The sacrifice of selfish privacy which is daily demanded of us is daily repaid a hundredfold in the true growth of personality which the life of the body encourages. ...Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality. (C.S. Lewis)

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. (Leonardo da Vinci)

A soldier was astonished when he heard General Robert E. Lee speak in complimentary terms about a fellow officer. "General," he said, "do you know that the man you spoke so highly of is one of your worst enemies, and that he misses no opportunity to slander you?"
"Yes," said the General, "but I was asked for my opinion of him, not his of me."

When you look for the bad in people, expecting to find it.... you surely will (Ben Franklin)

In looking back, it would be wrong to deny that we have been in the Slough of Despond, and have crept along the Valley of Humiliation, but it would be equally wicked to forget that we have been through them safely and profitably; we have not remained in them, thanks to our Almighty Helper and Leader, who has brought us 'out into a wealthy place.' (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. (Dinah Shore)

I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. I did not then see what is now the most shining and obvious thing; the Divine humility which will accept a convert even on such terms. The Prodigal Son at least walked home on his own feet. But who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape? (C.S. Lewis)

If we were to hear 100 people repeating the sentence, 'Let not your heart be troubled,' we should find that 99 of them put the emphasis upon the word troubled.... I feel led to believe that the purposed emphasis is on the word heart.... The heart is to be clothed in serene regality even when hell is knocking and rioting at its very gates. (J.H. Jowett)

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose. (Turkish proverb)

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." (Maria Montessori, Italian educator — 1870-1952)

Laughter is like changing a baby's diaper. It doesn't solve any problems permanently, but it makes things more acceptable for a while. (Pickles comic strip)

It is not on what we spend the greatest amount of time that molds us the most, but whatever exerts the most power over us. (Oswald Smith)

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. (Helen Keller)

Nothing produces such odd results as trying to get even. (Franklin P. Jones)

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped on link at a time. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Have you ever seen a sidewalk turned inside out because a little acorn fell between the cracks? An acorn can't move sidewalks. But when you set the acorn free to be what it was created to be, you've got an oak tree on your hands. The law of the oak transcends the law of the concrete. When you accepted Jesus Christ, you received the acorn of the Spirit who wants to become the oak of your life to move aside the concrete of your problems. (Tony Evans)

The abiding awareness of the Christian life is to be God Himself, not just thoughts about Him. The total being of our life inside and out is to be absolutely obsessed by the presence of God. A child's awareness is so absorbed in his mother that although he is not consciously thinking of her, when a problem arises, the abiding relationship is that with the mother. In that same way, we are to "live and move and have our being" in God (Acts 17:28), looking at everything in relation to Him, because our abiding awareness of Him continually pushes itself to the forefront of our lives.(Oswald Chambers)

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us.
A duty to strive is the duty of us all. (Abraham Lincoln)

A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything (Eccl 10:19)

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. (Booker T. Washington)

We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us. (C.S. Lewis)

Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. (C.S. Lewis)

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. (William A. Ward)

I have met no people who fully disbelieved in Hell and also had a living and life-giving belief in Heaven. (C.S. Lewis)

There are certain things in life that we need not pray about — moods, for instance. We will never get rid of moodiness by praying, but we will by kicking it out of our lives. Moods nearly always are rooted in some physical circumstance, not in our true inner self. It is a continual struggle not to listen to the moods which arise as a result of our physical condition, but we must never submit to them for a second. We have to pick ourselves up by the back of the neck and shake ourselves; then we will find that we can do what we believed we were unable to do. The problem that most of us are cursed with is simply that we won't. (Oswald Chambers)

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse. (Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld)

Obedience from the heart is wanting to do what God tells you to do. (ODB)

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path to truth. (Hans Reichenbach)

No sin is worse than the sin of self-pity, because it removes God from the throne of our lives, replacing Him with our own self-interests. It causes us to open our mouths only to complain, and we simply become spiritual sponges — always absorbing, never giving, and never being satisfied. And there is nothing lovely or generous about our lives. (Oswald Chambers)

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. (Theodore I. Rubin)

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. (Josh Billings)

We are judged by how we finish, not by how we start. (ODB)

God is the Master Designer, and He allows adversities into your life to see if you can jump over them properly — "By my God I can leap over a wall" (Psalm 18:29).

The thief upon the cross was justified the moment that he turned the eye of faith to Jesus; and Paul, the aged, after years of service, was not more justified than was the thief with no service at all. We are to-day accepted in the Beloved, to-day absolved from sin (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. (Chinese proverb))

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)

God loves every one of us as if there were but one of us to love. (Saint Augustine)

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. (G. K. Chesterton)

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. (Charles Kingsley)

A readiness to believe every promise implicitly, to obey every command unhesitatingly.... is the only true spirit of Bible study. (Andrew Murray)

Love means that there are no visible habits — that your habits are so immersed in the Lord that you practice them without realizing it. If you are consciously aware of your own holiness, you place limitations on yourself from doing certain things — things God is not restricting you from at all. This means there is a missing quality that needs to be added to your life. The only supernatural life is the life the Lord Jesus lived, and He was at home with God anywhere. Is there someplace where you are not at home with God? Then allow God to work through whatever that particular circumstance may be until you increase in Him, adding His qualities. Your life will then become the simple life of a child. (Oswald Chambers)

Be kind — Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle — everybody's lonesome. (Marion Parker)

We have seen only one [perfect] man. And he was not at all like the psychologist's picture of the integrated, balanced, adjusted, happily married, employed popular citizen. You can't really be very well 'adjusted' to your world if it says you have a devil and ends by nailing you up naked to a stake of wood. (C.S. Lewis)

Neither natural love nor God's divine love will remain and grow in me unless it is nurtured. Love is spontaneous, but it has to be maintained through discipline. (Oswald Chambers)

Our Master does not think so lightly of our unbelief as we do. When we are desponding we are subject to a grievous malady, not to be trifled with, but to be carried at once to the beloved Physician. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end. If you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth — only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair. (C.S. Lewis)

I bear witness that never servant had such a master as I have; never brother such a kinsman as He has been to me; never spouse such a husband as Christ has been to my soul; never sinner a better Saviour; never mourner a better comforter than Christ hath been to my spirit. I want none beside Him. In life He is my life, and in death He shall be the death of death; in poverty Christ is my riches; in sickness He makes my bed; in darkness He is my star, and in brightness He is my sun.... (Charles H. Spurgeon)

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. (Epictetus)

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. (Eric Hoffer)

Jesus prayed, "This is eternal life, that they may know You...." (John 17:3). The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything it has to face without wavering. If we will take this view, life will become one great romance — a glorious opportunity of seeing wonderful things all the time. God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power. (Oswald Chambers)

I cannot choose the best. The best chooses me. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Live each season as it passes; breathe air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. (Henry David Thoreau)

We must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill,
and we must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love. (Sigmund Freud)

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. (Marcus Aurelius)

To ask that God's love should be content with us is to ask that God should cease to be God: because He is what He is, His love must, in the nature of things, be impeded and repelled by certain stains in our present character, and because He already loves us He must labour to make us lovable. (C.S. Lewis)

Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance. (Anonymous)

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. (Dale Carnegie)

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. (Helen Keller)

Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self.... Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. (C.S. Lewis)

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. (Ronald Regan)

If we have only what we have experienced, we have nothing. But if we have the inspiration of the vision of God, we have more than we can experience. Beware of the danger of spiritual relaxation. (Oswald Smith)

Christians often want to die when they have any trouble. Ask them why, and they tell you, "Because we would be with the Lord." We fear it is not so much because they are longing to be with the Lord, as because they desire to get rid of their troubles; else they would feel the same wish to die at other times when not under the pressure of trial. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

To love love and not its meaning hardens the heart in monstrous ways. (Archibald MacLeish)

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks incognito. And the incognito is not always hard to penetrate. The real labour is to remember, to attend. In fact, to come awake. Still more, to remain awake. (C.S. Lewis)

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. (George Sewell)

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. (C.S. Lewis)

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not. (Thomas Huxley)

If anyone would like to acquire humility...the first step is to realize that one is proud...nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed. (C.S. Lewis)

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. (Ellen Key)

Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury. And the sense of injury depends on the feelings that a legitimate claim has been denied. (C.S. Lewis)

There are some people who are totally unemployable in the spiritual realm. They are spiritually feeble and weak, and they refuse to do anything unless they are supernaturally inspired. The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not. (Oswald Chambers)

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. (Daniel Defoe)

Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace, and our work as His disciples is to disciple others' lives until they are totally yielded to God. One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.... God brings us up to a standard of life through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in others.... Many of us are dictators, dictating our desires to individuals and to groups. But Jesus never dictates to us in that way. Whenever our Lord talked about discipleship, He always prefaced His words with an "if," never with the forceful or dogmatic statement — "You must." Discipleship carries with it an option. (Oswald Chambers)

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed. (C.S. Lewis)

...once our concentration is on God..., the only responsibility you have is to stay in living constant touch with God, and to see that you allow nothing to hinder your cooperation with Him. The freedom that comes after sanctification is the freedom of a child, and the things that used to hold your life down are gone. (Oswald Chambers)

Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike. (Germaine de Stael)

A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us. (Franz Kafka)

God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. (Elbert Hubbard)

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. (Henry George)

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. (Albert Einstein)

A complaining Christian is a contradiction in terms. (ODB)

If your father and mother, your sister and brother, yes even the very cat and dog in your house are not happier for your being a Christian, it is a question whether you really are one or not. (Hudson Taylor)

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair. (C.S. Lewis)

Socrates used to say, "Philosophers can be happy without music;" and Christians can be happier than philosophers when all outward causes of rejoicing are withdrawn. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them. (Charles Buxton)

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal to Him. (C.S. Lewis)

If I could do it all again, I would do less, and allow God to do more through me. (Vance Havner)

Our Lord doesn't hide these things from us, but we are not prepared to receive them until we are in the right condition in our spiritual life.... And our own unyielding and headstrong opinions will effectively prevent God from revealing anything to us. But our insensible thinking will end immediately once His resurrection life has its way with us. (Oswald Chambers)

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels he is 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him. (C.S. Lewis)

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

What do people mean when they say "I am not afraid of God because he is good?" Have they never been to a dentist? (C.S. Lewis)

Faithfulness in little things is a great thing. (ODB)

The ambiguous and the false, the unworthy and mean, will ere long overthrow and confute themselves, and therefore the true can afford to be quiet, and finds silence to be its wisdom. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

... pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. (C.S. Lewis)

What will all that chatter and hearsay count (will you even be able to remember it?) when the anesthetic fog which we call 'nature' or 'the real world' fades away and the presence in which you have always stood becomes palpable, immediate, and unavoidable? (C.S. Lewis)

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. (Henry Peter Brougham, 1778-1868)

Use soft words and hard arguments. (English proverb)

All humanity is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable, and those who move! (Ben Franklin)

I can imagine our entire school system shriveling up. It is a $500 billion-dollar enterprise. By everybody's measure, they are inefficient, ineffective and very expensive. When we built that system, it was humanizing and democratic and good. But its very structure — it simulated the factory.... Now they continue to simulate a factory future, but the factories aren't going to be there. So what is going to happen is that these schools are going to shrink in relevance.... (Alvin Toffler)

He not busy being born is busy dying. (Bob Dylan)

I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell: and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself. (C.S. Lewis)

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. (Harry Emerson Fosdick)

I wish they'd remember that the charge to Peter was feed my sheep; not try experiments on my rats, or even, teach my performing dogs new tricks. (C.S. Lewis)

If we want to maintain personal intimacy with the Lord Jesus Christ, it will mean refusing to do or even think certain things. And some things that are acceptable for others will become unacceptable for us. (Oswald Chambers)

Calmness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can read. (Mark Twain)

Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. (Albert Camus)

He treated the whole mob of men as a mob of kings. (about St Francis) (G. K. Chesterton)

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. (Sally Kempton)

Listen intently with your entire being until you hear the Bridegroom's voice in the life of another person. And never give any thought to what devastation, difficulties, or sickness it will bring. Just rejoice with godly excitement that His voice has been heard. You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it. (Matthew 10:34 MSG)

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. (Epictetus)

We want in fact not so much a father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven — a senile benevolence who as they say 'liked to see young people enjoying themselves.' (C.S. Lewis)

We have to face our sins before we can put them behind us. (ODB)

If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask you to make it right; He only asks you to accept the light of truth, and then He will make it right. A child of the light will confess sin instantly and stand completely open before God. But a child of the darkness will say, "Oh, I can explain that." (Oswald Chambers)

Behold the great Apostle and High Priest of our profession, and sweat even to blood rather than yield to the great tempter of your souls. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Thankfulness in prayer can lift a load of care. (ODB)

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. (Elie Wiesel)

... the only test we should use to determine whether or not to allow a particular emotion to run its course in our lives is to examine what the final outcome of that emotion will be. Think it through to its logical conclusion, and if the outcome is something that God would condemn, put a stop to it immediately. But if it is an emotion that has been kindled by the Spirit of God and you don't allow it to have its way in your life, it will cause a reaction on a lower level than God intended. That is the way unrealistic and overly emotional people are made. (Oswald Chambers)

... death smites the goodliest of our friends; the most generous, the most prayerful, the most holy, the most devoted must die. And why? It is through Jesus' prevailing prayer — "Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am." It is that which bears them on eagle's wings to heaven. Every time a believer mounts from this earth to paradise, it is an answer to Christ's prayer.... You would give up your prayer for your loved one's life, if you could realize the thoughts that Christ is praying in the opposite direction — "Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am." Lord, Thou shalt have them. By faith we let them go. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. (Michael J. Fox)

(A devil speaking) Let him do anything but act. No amount of piety in his imagination and affections will harm us if we can keep it out of his will. As one of the humans has said, active habits are strengthened by repetition but passive ones are weakened. The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel. (C.S. Lewis)

Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand. (St Francis of Assisi)

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. (Pythagoras)

Humans are amphibians — half spirit and half animal...As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. (C.S. Lewis)

You are free to make decisions in the light of a perfect and delightful friendship with God, knowing that if your decisions are wrong He will lovingly produce that sense of restraint. Once he does, you must stop immediately. (Oswald Chambers)

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. (Colin Wilson)

Let us make daily use of our riches, and ever repair to Him as to our own Lord in covenant, taking from Him the supply of all we need with as much boldness as men take money from their own purse. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute — and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. (Albert Einstein)

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. (Philip Adams)

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. (Whitney Young, Jr.)

We are saved by faith alone, but faith that saves is never alone. (ODB)

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul. (Dr. Wayne Dyer)

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. (Albert Einstein)

Praise God for the community of believers, for they are Christ to you. (Anonymous)

The church is not a society of the successful. It is a fellowship of the forgiven. (Robert B. Munger)

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. (C.S. Lewis)

If you love darkness, and are satisfied to dwell in gloom and misery, then be content with little faith; but if you love the sunshine, and would sing songs of rejoicing, covet earnestly this best gift, "great faith." (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change. (Ramsay Clark)

If we haven't learned to be worshipers, it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else. (Erwin Lutzer)

When you have no vision from God, no enthusiasm left in your life, and no one watching and encouraging you, it requires the grace of Almighty God to take the next step in your devotion to Him, in the reading and studying of His Word, in your family life, or in your duty to Him. It takes much more of the grace of God, and a much greater awareness of drawing upon Him, to take that next step, than it does to preach the gospel. (Oswald Chambers)

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. (Aristotle)

Our defeats are but stepping-stones to victory, and his victories are but stepping-stones to ruin. (Sir Winston Churchill)

I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans. (C.S. Lewis)

If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Never consider whether or not you are of use — but always consider that "you are not your own" (1 Corinthians 6:19). You are His. (Oswald Chambers)

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. (Sir Robert Hutchinson)

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Christians never say goodbye for the last time. (ODB)

Both the children were looking up into the Lion's face as he spoke these words. And all at once (they never knew exactly how it happened) the face seemed to be a sea of tossing gold in which they were floating, and such a sweetness and power rolled about them and over them and entered them that they felt they had never really been happy or wise or good, or even alive and awake, before. (C.S. Lewis)

We need to rely on the resurrection life of Jesus on a much deeper level than we do now. We should get in the habit of continually seeking His counsel on everything, instead of making our own commonsense decisions and then asking Him to bless them. (Oswald Chambers)

I used to think freedom was loving who I wanted and smoking what I wanted, and living as I pleased. What I discovered was that true freedom is doing what deep down inside you know you ought to do. True freedom is found in the grace and love of Jesus. (Anonymous)

Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind. (Austin O'Malley)

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out. (Otto von Bismarck)

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. (Calvin Coolidge)

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. (Aldous Huxley)

Prayer is thus connected with the blessing to show us the value of it. If we had the blessings without asking for them, we should think them common things; but prayer makes our mercies more precious than diamonds. The things we ask for are precious, but we do not realize their preciousness until we have sought for them earnestly. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Rousseau's philosophy continues to survive in the pop-psychology and "human potential" movements of today, and in the do-nothing school of child-rearing, which has given us so many little savages. (Judith Martin, a.k.a. Miss Manners)

Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open. "I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, "than with a sloven and unpresentable person." (Judith Martin, a.k.a. Miss Manners)

As you journey with God, the only thing He intends to be clear is the way He deals with your soul. The sorrows and difficulties in the lives of others will be absolutely confusiong to you. (Oswald Chambers)

Even in this world, of course, it is the stupidist children who are most childish and the stupidist grown-ups who are most grown-up. (C.S. Lewis)

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family. (Mother Theresa)

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. (May Sarton)

Most marriage failures are caused by failures marrying. (Henny Youngman)

If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad. (C.S. Lewis)

This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: "In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it...." Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him! O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you. (Isaiah 30:15, 18-19)

There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834)

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. (Sydney J. Harris)

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. (Andre Gide)

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. (Confucius)

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer. (Colette, The Last of Cheri)

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle. (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton)

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. (Thomas J. Watson)

Fear God and you will have nothing else to fear. (Anonymous)

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it. (Lao-Tze)

The angels of God serve Him with songs, not with groans; a murmur or a sigh would be a mutiny in their ranks. That obedience which is not voluntary is disobedience, for the Lord looketh at the heart, and if He seeth that we serve Him from force, and not because we love Him, He will reject our offering. Service coupled with cheerfulness is heart-service, and therefore true. Take away joyful willingness from the Christian, and you have removed the test of his sincerity. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. (Galileo Galilei)

There are not three levels of spiritual life — worship, waiting, and work. God's idea is that the three should go together as one. They were always together in the life of our lord and in perfect harmony. It is a discipline that must be developed, it will not happen overnight. (Chambers.)

Man: a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. (Alexander Hamilton)

Christians can never sin cheaply; they pay a heavy price for iniquity. Transgression destroys peace of mind, obscures fellowship with Jesus, hinders prayer, brings darkness over the soul.... (Oswald Chambers)

These little sins burrow in the soul, and make it so full of that which is hateful to Christ, that He will hold no comfortable fellowship and communion with us. A great sin cannot destroy a Christian, but a little sin can make him miserable. Jesus will not walk with His people unless they drive out every known sin. (Oswald Chambers)

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it. (William Penn)

Repentance does not cause a sense of sin — it causes a sense of inexpressible unworthiness. When I repent, I realize that I am absolutely helpless, and I know that through and through I am not worthy even to carry His sandals. Have I repented like that, or do I have a lingering thought of possibly trying to defend my actions? The reason God cannot come into my life is that I am not at the point of complete repentance. (Oswald Chambers)

Whenever anything begins to disintegrate your life with Jesus Christ, turn to Him at once, asking Him to re-establish your rest. Never allow anything to remain in your life that is causing the unrest. (Oswald Chambers)

A godly parent is a child's best guide to God. (ODB)

In all sickness, the Lord saith to the waves of pain, "Hitherto shall ye go, but no further." His fixed purpose is not the destruction, but the instruction of His people. Wisdom hangs up thermometer at the furnace mouth, and regulates the heat. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Smite, Lord, smite, for my sin is forgiven; if Thou hast but forgiven me, smite as hard as Thou wilt. (Luther)

Psalm 30:5 For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.

The rainbow is only to be seen painted upon a cloud. When the sinner's conscience is dark with clouds, when he remembers his past sin, and mourneth and lamenteth before God, Jesus Christ is revealed to him as the covenant Rainbow, displaying all the glorious hues of the divine character and betokening peace. To the believer, when his trials and temptations surround him, it is sweet to behold the person of our Lord Jesus Christ — to see Him bleeding, living, rising, and pleading for us. God's rainbow is hung over the cloud of our sins, our sorrows, and our woes, to prophesy deliverance. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

I've learned I must decide to look at sin as an offense against a holy God, instead of as a personal defeat; to take personal responsibility for [my] sin, depend on the grace of God; and obey God in all areas of life, however insignificant. (Jerry Bridges)

Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a flea, yet me makes gods by the dozens. (Michel de Montaigne)

History is fables agreed upon. (Voltaire)

God does not give us overcoming life — He gives us life as we overcome. The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength. Are you asking God to give you life, liberty, and joy? He cannot, unless you are willing to accept the strain. And once you face the strain, you will immediately get the strength. Overcome your own timidity and take the first step. Then God will give you nourishment.... (Oswald Chambers)

What a revelation it is to know that sorrow, bereavement, and suffering are actually the clouds that come along with God! God cannot come near us without clouds — He does not come in clear-shining brightness. (Oswald Chambers)

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. (Somerset Maugham)

Losses in business are often sanctified to our soul's enriching. If the chosen soul will not come to the Lord full-handed, it shall come empty. If God, in His grace, findeth no other means of making us honour Him among men, He will cast us into the deep; if we fail to honour Him on the pinnacle of riches, He will bring us into the valley of poverty. Yet faint not, heir of sorrow, when thou art thus rebuked, rather recognize the loving hand which chastens, and say, "I will arise, and go unto my Father." (Charles H. Spurgeon)

When thieves robbed Matthew Henry, the English author, he still found something to be thankful for. He wrote these words in his diary: "Let me be thankful first, because I was never robbed before; second, because, although they took my purse, they did not take my life; third, because it was I who was robbed, not I who robbed."

Christ's finished work is like wine stored in the wine-vat; through unbelief we can neither draw nor drink. The Holy Spirit dips our vessel into this precious wine, and then we drink.... (Charles H. Spurgeon)

There hang the blessings on the nail — Christ Jesus; but being short of stature, we cannot reach them; the Spirit of God takes them down and hands them to us, and thus they become actually ours. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Hofstadter's Law: The time and effort required to complete a project will be twice as much as you planned, unless you take into account Hofstadter's Law, in which case it will be four times as much. (Anonymous)

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. (Dutch Proverb)

Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned not to each other but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers [meeting] together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become unity-conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship." (A.W. Tozer)

If an angel should lay his hand upon us when we are doing evil, he need not use any other rebuke than the question, "What thou? What dost thou here?" (Charles H. Spurgeon)

To bear the Spirit's fruit don't let sin take root. (ODB)

The underlying foundation of Jesus Christ's kingdom is poverty, not possessions; not making decisions for Jesus, but having such a sense of absolute futility that we finally admit, "Lord, I cannot even begin to do it." Then Jesus says, "Blessed are you...." (5:11). This is the doorway to the kingdom, and yet it takes us so long to believe that we are actually poor! The knowledge of our own poverty is what brings us to the proper place where Jesus Christ accomplishes His work. (Oswald Chambers)

If life knocks you flat on your back, just tell yourself "Things are looking up!" (Ziggy, Tom Wilson)

Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually. Our problems arise when we refuse to place our trust in the reality of His presence. The experience the psalmist speaks of — "We will not fear, even though...." (Psalm 46:2) — will be ours once we are grounded on the truth of the reality of God's presence, not just a simple awareness of it, but an understanding of the reality of it. Then we will exclaim, "He has been here all the time!" (Oswald Chambers)

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. (Carl W. Buechner)

When our lives honor Christ, even silence is eloquent. (ODB)

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old. (Ed Howe)

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows one should never remember it. (Pierre Charron)

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love. (Spanish proverb)

The true test of our spirituality occurs when we come up against injustice, degradation, ingratitude, and turmoil, all of which have the tendency to make us spiritually lazy. While being tested, we want to use prayer and Bible reading for the purpose of finding a quiet retreat. We use God only for the sake of getting peace and joy. We seek only our enjoyment of Jesus Christ, not a true realization of Him. This is the first step in the wrong direction. All these things we are seeking are simply effects, and yet we try to make them causes.(Oswald Chambers)

In every believer there is darkness and light, and yet he is not to be named a sinner because there is sin in him, but he is to be named a saint because he possesses some degree of holiness. This will be a most comforting thought to those who are mourning their infirmities, and who ask, "Can I be a child of God while there is so much darkness in me?" Yes...; for you are spoken of in the word of God as if you were even now perfectly holy as you will be soon. You are called the child of light, though there is darkness in you still. You are named after what is the predominating quality in the sight of God, which will one day be the only principle remaining.... (Oswald Chambers)

It is a blessed aphorism of John Bunyan, "That which is last, lasts for ever." ... though you are naturally darkness, when once you become light in the Lord, there is no evening to follow; "thy sun shall no more go down." The first day in this life is an evening and a morning; but the second day, when we shall be with God, for ever, shall be a day with no evening, but one, sacred, high, eternal noon. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts. (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)

You have to dig deep to bury your Daddy. (proverb)

It is when we are in the valley, where we prove whether we will be the choice ones, that most of us turn back. We are not quite prepared for the bumps and bruises that must come if we are going to be turned into the shape of the vision. We have seen what we are not, and what God wants us to be, but are we willing to be battered into the shape of the vision to be used by God? The beatings will always come in the most common, everyday ways and through common, everyday people. (Oswald Chambers)

"If any man sin, we have an advocate" (I Jn. 2:1) Yes, though we sin, we have Him still. John does not say, "If any man sin he has forfeited his advocate," but "we have an advocate," sinners though we are. All the sin that a believer ever did, or can be allowed to commit, cannot destroy his interest in the Lord Jesus Christ, as his advocate. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

The Lord's people shall also enjoy light in the hour of death. Unbelief laments; the shadows fall, the night is coming, existence is ending. Ah no, crieth faith, the night is far spent, the true day is at hand. Light is come, the light of immortality, the light of a Father's countenance. Gather up thy feet in the bed, see the waiting bands of spirits! Angels waft thee away. Farewell, beloved one, thou art gone, thou wavest thine hand. Ah, now it is light. The pearly gates are open, the golden streets shine in the jasper light. We cover our eyes, but thou beholdest the unseen; adieu, brother, thou hast light at even-tide, such as we have not yet. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

No really great man ever thought himself so. (William Hazlitt)

We can remain powerless forever ... by trying to do God's work without concentrating on His power, and by following instead the ideas that we draw from our own nature. We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.(Oswald Chambers)

Our place of safety is the bosom of the Saviour. Perhaps we are tempted just now, in order to drive us nearer to Him. Blessed be any wind that blows us into the port of our Saviour's love! Happy wounds, which make us seek the beloved Physician.(Charles H. Spurgeon)

In 1968 the Olympics were held in Mexico City; my favorite event was the marathon. The crowd had pretty well gone because the winners had been declared, but there was still one man out — a man from Africa. He finally showed up, hobbling around the track with blood pouring from a bandage on his leg. As he made the final lap, those remaining began to stand. They clapped and yelled beyond anything the winner had received. After the man finished, he went directly to the locker room. The press followed him, asking, "Why did you continue in the race when it was obvious you couldn't win?" He said, "My country didn't send me 7,000 miles to start the race; they sent me to finish. That's what I did." (Howard Hendricks)

Most of us can do things if we are always at some heroic level of intensity, simply because of the natural selfishness of our own hearts. But God wants us to be at the drab everyday level, where we live in the valley according to our personal relationship with Him. (Oswald Chambers)

To be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience the very presence of God as they are providentially broken in His service. We have to be placed into God and brought into agreement with Him before we can be broken bread in His hands. Stay right with God and let Him do as He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. (Sir Thomas Browne, "Christian Morals," 1716)

Switzerland is known for its scenic mountains and beautiful waterfalls. A visitor to that picturesque country observed: Some guidebooks name the time when rainbows may be seen on many of the waterfalls in Switzerland. One day, when I was at Lauterbrunnen, I went to the famous Staubbach Falls and watched and waited. Others did the same, and we all went away quite disappointed. The next day one of my friends said he would show us how to find the rainbow. So I went again and saw a lovely one, and stood almost in the center of it. Then I found that not only were sunshine and spray necessary to produce a rainbow, but also that it could be seen and enjoyed only at a certain point. (ODB)

Worries go down better with soup than without. (Jewish)

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people. (Confucius)

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. (Maurice Maeterlinck)

He who does not prepare for death is more than an ordinary fool, he is a madman. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. (Voltaire)

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath. (Kahlil Gibran)

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. Norman Vincent Peale)

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. (Colette, Paris From My Window)

Our Lord never takes measures to make me do what He wants. Sometimes I wish God would master and control me to make me do what He wants, but He will not. And at other times I wish He would leave me alone, and He does not. (Oswald Chambers)

If we are consciously aware that we are being mastered, that idea itself is proof that we have no master. If that is our attitude toward Jesus, we are far away from having the relationship He wants with us. He wants us in a relationship where He is so easily our Master and Teacher that we have no conscious awareness of it — a relationship where all we know is that we are His to obey. (Oswald Chambers)

Thought to Apply: Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves. (Saint Augustine)

Whatever you are, be a good one. (Abraham Lincoln)

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. (George Sand)

Love truth, and pardon error. (Voltaire)

Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things — he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God. He does not come to us on the premise of tempting us to sin, but on the premise of shifting our point of view, and only the Spirit of God can detect this as a temptation of the devil. (Oswald Chambers)

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. (Francis Bacon)

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does — except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. (Abigail Van Buren, 1978)

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. (Aristotle)

...those who are made partakers of the divine nature will manifest their high and holy relationship in their intercourse with others, and make it evident by their daily walk and conversation that they have escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. O for more divine holiness of life! (Charles H. Spurgeon)

A strong will often conceals a strong "won't." (ODB)

Many people have turned back because they are afraid to look at things from God's perspective. The greatest spiritual crisis comes when a person has to move a little farther on in his faith than the beliefs he has already accepted. (Oswald Chambers)

Have you "renounced the hidden things of shame" in your life — the things that your sense of honor or pride will not allow to come into the light? You can easily hide them. Is there a thought in your heart about anyone that you would not like to be brought into the light? Then renounce it as soon as it comes to mind — renounce everything in its entirety until there is no hidden dishonesty or craftiness about you at all. (Oswald Chambers)

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. (Joseph Addison)

You cannot think through spiritual confusion to make things clear; to make things clear, you must obey. In intellectual matters you can think things out, but in spiritual matters you will only think yourself into further wandering thoughts and more confusion. If there is something in your life upon which God has put His pressure, then obey Him in that matter. Bring all your "arguments and.... every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ" regarding the matter, and everything will become as clear as daylight to you (2 Corinthians 10:5). Your reasoning capacity will come later, but reasoning is not how we see. We see like children, and when we try to be wise we see nothing. (Oswald Chambers)

Life's challenges are designed not to break us but to bend us toward God. (ODB)

None are so precious in Jesus' sight as the sinners for whom He died. When Jesus receives sinners, He has not some out-of-doors reception place, no casual ward where He charitably entertains them as men do passing beggars, but He opens the golden gates of His royal heart, and receives the sinner right into Himself — yea, He admits the humble penitent into personal union and makes Him a member of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones. There was never such a reception as this!

You may have pleasure; but when you are merry, sing psalms and make melody in your hearts to the Lord. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. (Baltasar Gracian)

Temptation says, "Do this pleasant thing; do not be hindered by the fact that it is wrong." Trial or proving says, "Do this right and noble thing; do not be hindered by the fact that it is painful." (Anonymous)

Our faith is really and truly tested only when we are brought into very severe conflicts, and when even hell itself seems opened to swallow us up. (John Calvin)

Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect. (Marcus Aurelius)

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but is has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings. (Helen Keller, My Religion)

If you would reach to something higher than ordinary groveling experience, look to the Rock that is higher than you, and gaze with the eye of faith through the window of importunate prayer. When you open the window on your side, it will not be bolted on the other. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. (Ouida)

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. (Ralph Charell)

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach. (Demosthenes)

Truth is something like the cluster of the vine: if we would have wine from it, we must bruise it; we must press and squeeze it many times. The bruiser's feet must come down joyfully upon the bunches, or else the juice will not flow; and they must well tread the grapes, or else much of the precious liquid will be wasted. So we must, by meditation, tread the clusters of truth, if we would get the wine of consolation therefrom. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

The Holy Spirit consoles, but Christ is the consolation. If we may use the figure, the Holy Spirit is the Physician, but Jesus is the medicine. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

I here present myself, praying to live only in Thee and to Thee. Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, "Ready for either." (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Earth should be a preparation for heaven; and heaven is the place where saints feast most and work most. They sit down at the table of our Lord, and they serve Him day and night in His temple. They eat of heavenly food and render perfect service. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Lord, paint upon the eyeballs of my soul the image of Thy Son. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Lord, please keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.

God, give us the desires of our heart — and the desires of your heart.
May these be the same set of desires.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. (Samuel Butler)

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. (Bernard M. Baruch, 1940)

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh. (The Koran)

If God gave us favours without constraining us to pray for them we should never know how poor we are, but a true prayer is an inventory of wants, a catalogue of necessities, a revelation of hidden poverty. While it is an application to divine wealth, it is a confession of human emptiness. The most healthy state of a Christian is to be always empty in self and constantly depending upon the Lord for supplies; to be always poor in self and rich in Jesus; weak as water personally, but mighty through God to do great exploits; (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. (La Rochefoucauld — 1613-1680)

Integrity has no need of rules. (Albert Camus)

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. (Anne Frank)

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. (Benjamin Disraeli)

In some sense the path to heaven is very safe, but in other respects there is no road so dangerous. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. (Billy Graham)

God's love is to be enjoyed, not tested. (ODB)

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.(Confucius)

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person. (Socrates, quoted by Plato, The Death of Socrates)

The nature of sin is not immorality and wrongdoing, but the nature of self-realization which leads us to say, "I am my own god." This nature may exhibit itself in proper morality or in improper immorality, but it always has a common basis — my claim to my right to myself. When our Lord faced either people with all the forces of evil in them, or people who were clean — living, moral, and upright, He paid no attention to the moral degradation of one, nor any attention to the moral attainment of the other. He looked at something we do not see, namely, the nature of man. (Oswald Chambers)

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. (Peter Drucker)

Often the best thing about not saying anything is that it can't be repeated. (Suzan Wiener)

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. (Thomas Jefferson)

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. (James 1:21)

Honest criticism is hard to take — especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. (Franklin Jones)

It really is true to say, "I cannot live a holy life," but you can decide to let Jesus Christ make you holy. "You cannot serve the Lord ..." — but you can place yourself in the proper position where God's almighty power will flow through you. Is your relationship with God sufficient for you to expect Him to exhibit His wonderful life in you? (Oswald Chambers)

Have you ever really weighed and considered how great the sin of God's people is? Think how heinous is your own transgression, and you will find that not only does a sin here and there tower up like an alp, but that your iniquities are heaped upon each other..., mountain upon mountain. What an aggregate of sin there is in the life of one of the most sanctified of God's children! Attempt to multiply this, the sin of one only, by the multitude of the redeemed, "a number which no man can number," and you will have some conception of the great mass of the guilt of the people for whom Jesus shed His blood. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

The Christian life is a life characterized by true and spontaneous creativity. Consequently, a disciple is subject to the same charge that was leveled against Jesus Christ, namely, the charge of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent in His relationship to God, and a Christian must be consistent in his relationship to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to strict, unyielding doctrines. People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ. (Oswald Chambers)

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. (Helen Keller)

These sermons of Jesus Christ are meant for your will and your conscience, not for your head. If you dispute these verses from the Sermon on the Mount with your head, you will dull the appeal to your heart. (Oswald Chambers)

He stands at the door and knocks, and if His people will but open He rejoices to enter. But in what state is my heart, which is my Lord's garden? May I venture to hope that it is well trimmed and watered, and is bringing forth fruit fit for Him? If not, He will have much to reprove, but still I pray Him to come unto me, for nothing can so certainly bring my heart into a right condition as the presence of the Sun of Righteousness, who brings healing in His wings. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Live as if Christ died yesterday and is coming back today. (ODB)

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. (Margaret Fuller)

Sorrow shared is a sorrow halved. (Shakespeare)

With an enthusiastic love for Jesus difficulties are surmounted, sacrifices become pleasures, sufferings are honours. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

No creature that deserved redemption would need to be redeemed. (C.S. Lewis)

Why should I despair of loving Jesus with a love as strong as death? He deserves it: I desire it. The martyrs felt such love, and they were but flesh and blood, then why not I? They mourned their weakness, and yet out of weakness were made strong. Grace gave them all their unflinching constancy — there is the same grace for me. Jesus, lover of my soul, shed abroad such love, even Thy love in my heart, this evening. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

True repentance has a distinct reference to the Saviour. When we repent of sin, we must have one eye upon sin and another upon the cross, or it will be better still if we fix both our eyes upon Christ and see our transgressions only, in the light of His love. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

No man may say he hates sin, if he lives in it. Repentance makes us see the evil of sin, not merely as a theory, but experimentally — as a burnt child dreads fire. We shall be as much afraid of it, as a man who has lately been stopped and robbed is afraid of the thief upon the highway; and we shall shun it — shun it in everything — not in great things only, but in little things, as men shun little vipers as well as great snakes. True mourning for sin will make us very jealous over our tongue, lest it should say a wrong word; we shall be very watchful over our daily actions, lest in anything we offend, and each night we shall close the day with painful confessions of shortcoming, and each morning awaken with anxious prayers, that this day God would hold us up that we may not sin against Him. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

If salvation can be attained only by working hard, then surely horses and donkeys would be in heaven. (Martin Luther)

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. (Mark Twain)

Don't believe the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing — it was here first. (Mark Twain)

I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. (Katherine Cebrian)

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. (Theodore Roosevelt)

It is a blessed thing to be teachable as a little child, but it is a much more blessed thing when one has been taught the lesson, to carry it out to the letter. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Our Lord told us how our love for Him is to exhibit itself when He asked, "Do you love Me?" (John 21:17). And then He said, "Feed My sheep." In effect, He said, "Identify yourself with My interests in other people," not, "Identify Me with your interests in other people." (Oswald Chambers)

You can stand almost anything if you know it isn't permanent. (Steve Brown in When Your Rope Breaks)

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. (Hasidic Saying)

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people. (Mary S. Calderone)

Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't. (Erica Jong)

The first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. (Cato the Younger — B.C. 95-46)

Glorious gospel! which provides everything for the helpless, which draws nigh to us when we cannot reach after it — brings us grace before we seek for grace! (Charles H. Spurgeon)

If you are debating as to whether or not God can deliver from sin, then either let Him do it or tell Him that He cannot. Do not quote this or that person to Him. Simply obey (Matthew 11:28 MSG) "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden...."

There is no education like adversity. (Our Daily Bread)

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. (William Hutton)

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time. (Rebecca West)

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. (Aurobindo Ghose)

I went about in pity for myself; and all the while a great wind was blowing me across the heavens. (Ojibway saying)

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind. (Albert Szent-Gyöorgi — Hungarian-American Biochemist)

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected. (Theodore Parker)

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness. (Albert Einstein)

God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh. (Voltaire)

Jesus says, in effect, "Don't worry about whether or not you are being treated justly." Looking for justice is actually a sign that we have been diverted from our devotion to Him. Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it. If we look for justice, we will only begin to complain and to indulge ourselves in the discontent of self-pity, as if to say, "Why should I be treated like this?" If we are devoted to Jesus Christ, we have nothing to do with what we encounter, whether it is just or unjust. In essence, Jesus says, "Continue steadily on with what I have told you to do, and I will guard your life. If you try to guard it yourself, you remove yourself from My deliverance." Even the most devout among us become atheistic in this regard — we do not believe Him. We put our common sense on the throne and then attach God's name to it. (Oswald Chambers)

If we give our enemy a foothold he will build a stronghold then use it as a stranglehold. (Lew Gervais)

Servants of Christ must be masters of themselves. (ODB)

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. (ODB)

Saying yes to God means saying no to things that offend His holiness. (A. Morgan Derham)

Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get. (Josh McDowell)

There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it. (Seneca)

It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them. (De la Rochefoucauld)

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. (Albert Einstein)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. (e e cummings)

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. (Thomas Jefferson)

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. (Albert Einstein)

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. (Sir Winston Churchill)

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. (Niels Bohr)

We sit down at the door of God's purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, "Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine." If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours? (Oswald Chambers)

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. (Epictetus)

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret — that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him. (Cicero)

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. (Paul Tournier)

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Albert Einstein)

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. (Lucille S. Harper)

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise. (Boris Pasternak — Russian writer, on Soviet leaders. On this day in 1958, under pressure from Soviet leaders, Pasternak refuses Nobel Prize.)

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. (Honoré de Balzac)

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. (Mignon McLaughlin)

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets real thing, it is irresistible. (C.S. Lewis)

He who stops being better stops being good. (Oliver Cromwell)

The Lord does not give me rules, but He makes His standard very clear. If my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says without hesitation. If I hesitate, it is because I love someone I have placed in competition with Him, namely, myself. Jesus Christ will not force me to obey Him, but I must. And as soon as I obey Him, I fulfill my spiritual destiny. (Oswald Chambers)

Reason should direct and appetite obey. (Cicero)

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. (Abraham J. Heschel)

You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult. (Judge Hall)

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

God will have no strength used in His battles but the strength which He Himself imparts. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Once I press myself into action, I immediately begin to live. Anything less is merely existing. The moments I truly live are the moments when I act with my entire will. (Oswald Chambers)

We come up to the truth of God, confess we are wrong, but go back again. Then we approach it again and turn back, until we finally learn we have no business going back. (Oswald Chambers)

Treat people as if they are what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. (Epicurus)

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. (Perelman)

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one. Ivern Ball)

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. (Elvis Presley)

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. (C. G. Jung)

The gods too are fond of a joke. (Aristotle)

Saints are not, by nature, wells, or streams, they are but cisterns into which the living water flows; they are empty vessels into which God pours His salvation. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

We have to remember that our conscious life, even though only a small part of our total person, is to be regarded by us as a "temple of the Holy Spirit." He will be responsible for the unconscious part which we don't know, but we must pay careful attention to and guard the conscious part for which we are responsible. (Oswald Chambers)

A word rashly spoken cannot be brought back by a chariot and four horses. (Chinese proverb)

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. (Plato)

Plato was a bore. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. (Leo Tolstoy)

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. (Chilo)

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. (Ross MacDonald — 1915-1983)

When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. He can crush me, exalt me, or do anything else He chooses. He simply asks me to have absolute faith in Him and His goodness. Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world. (Oswald Chambers)

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.(Mark Twain)

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. (Bertrand Russell)

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. (Woody Allen)

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. (William Congreve)

( Judge Henry's Sagacity: IF YOU LOOK FOR THE TRUTH OUTSIDE YOURSELF, THEN IT GETS FARTHER AND FARTHER AWAY MANKIND HOPES AND PLANS; GOD DECIDES. EVERYONE HAS THE POWER FOR GREATNESS, NOT FOR FAME; BUT GREATNESS IS DETERMINED BY SERVICE. YOU CAN GET THROUGH LIFE WITH BAD MANNERS, BUT IT'S MUCH EASIER WITH GOOD MANNERS. TAKE WHAT COULD BE A CARETAKER JOB AND TURN IT INTO A CRUSADE TO GET THE NEXT LEVEL OF SUCCESS, SOPHISTICATION, AND COOPERATION. AIMING ISN'T HITTING; FOLLOW THROUGH. THE KEY TO A LONG LIFE IS TAKING CARE OF YOUR HEALTH; AND A LOT OF THAT IS ATTITUDE. DON'T BEAT-UP ON YOURSELF IF YOU LOSE, AS LONG AS YOU GIVE IT YOUR ALL. JUST BECAUSE ONE LACKS KNOWLEDGE OF THE PARTICULAR SUBJECT MATTER DOES NOT MEAN THAT ONE IS WITHOUT THE ABILITY TO KNOW. EVERYONE HAS A POTENTIAL; HAVE YOU REALIZED YOURS? DO NOT USE A HATCHET TO REMOVE A FLY FROM A FRIEND'S FOREHEAD. ATTEMPT THE IMPOSSIBLE IN ORDER TO IMPROVE WHAT YOU DO. THERE COMES A POINT WHEN ANYTHING MORE IS SIMPLY MORE. GREAT IDEAS ARE THE FUEL OF PROGRESS. LIFE IS NOT A BRIEF CANDLE IT IS A SPLENDID TORCH. IF YOU CAN SPEND A PERFECTLY USELESS AFTERNOON IN A PERFECTLY USELESS MANNER, THEN YOU HAVE LEARNED HOW TO LIVE. LIFE IS LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GONNA GET. SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE ONIONS — THE MORE YOU PEEL AWAY THE MORE THEY MAKE YOU CRY. IT'S NOT THE THINGS YOU DO AT CHRISTMAS TIME; IT'S THE CHRISTMAS THINGS YOU DO ALL YEAR. A PESSIMIST SEES ONLY THE DARK SIDE OF THE CLOUDS AND MOPES; AN OPTIMIST DOESN'T SEE THE CLOUDS AT ALL BECAUSE S/HE'S WALKING ON THEM. WORRY OFTEN GIVES A SMALL THING A VERY BIG SHADOW. BE PARTICULARLY CAREFUL WITH YOUR CHOICE OF WORDS. THE KEY TO COMMUNICATION IS SPEAKING WITHOUT OFFENDING AND LISTENING WITHOUT DEFENDING OPPORTUNITIES ARE OFTEN DISGUISED AS HARD WORK, SO MOST PEOPLE DON'T RECOGNIZE THEM. WHAT WOULD LIFE BE IF WE HAD NO COURAGE TO ATTEMPT ANYTHING? DO THE BEST YOU CAN WITH WHAT YOU'VE GOT, WHERE YOU ARE. GOD FAVORS NO GROUP — ONLY RELIGIONS DO THAT. WE ALL CAN STAND ADVERSITY, BUT IF YOU WANT TO TEST ONE'S CHARACTER, GIVE HER/HIM POWER. ELEGANCE IS INNATE — IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BEING WELL DRESSED. BE PARTICULARLY CAREFUL WITH YOUR CHOICE OF WORDS. AVOID HURTING ANOTHER. GENEROUSITY PAYS OFF FAR GREATER THAN INTENDED. BE PARTICULARLY CAREFUL WITH YOUR CHOICE OF WORDS. GOALS ARE ATTAINABLE ONLY IF PURSUED. RARELY ARE THE ANSWERS FOUND IN SNAP DECISION-MAKING. DO NOT BRAG ABOUT CAPABILITIES THAT ARE NOT YET PROVEN BY ACT OR DEED. MAKE AN EXTRA EFFORT TO KEEP PACE. FOR BETTER RESULTS ALLOW THINGS TO UNFOLD IN THEIR OWN TIME RARELY ARE THE ANSWERS FOUND IN SNAP DECISION-MAKING. DO NOT ONLY CONCENTRATE ON THE IMMEDIATE BUT ON WHAT IS COMING DOWN THE LINE. IF IT AIN'T BROKE YOU FIX IT BEFORE IT IS. GUARD AGAINST MAKING SNAP JUDGMENTS PRACTICALITY OR COMPASSION — DECIDE. BE CONTENT WITH THOSE WHO SHARE YOUR DAY RECTIFY MISCALCULATIONS. HAVE THE COURAGE TO BE YOURSELF — ALWAYS. DO NOT IGNORE YOUR PROMISES. HAVING THE ABILITY TO SEE BOTH SIDES OF AN ISSUE IS AN ASSET. CLEAN THINGS UP AS EACH CHORE OCCURS. MAINTAIN AN OPTIMISTIC ATTITUDE IN ALL OF YOUR ENDEAVORS. YOUR WORD IS YOUR BOND. STIMULATE MENTAL FACULTIES. PROVIDE SOMETHING SORELY NEEDED. RISE ABOVE HURT FEELINGS. GOING OUT OF YOUR WAY TO DO SOMEONE A FAVOR SHOULD NOT BE A BIG DEAL. MAKE SOMETHING VERY NICE DEVELOP. RECTIFY MISCALCULATIONS. ESTABLISH A NEW HEALTH REGIMEN. HELP ANOTHER WITHOUT STRINGS ATTACHED. GUARD AGAINST CO-WORKERS WHO MIGHT GET CARELESS. REMAIN DEDICATED, REALISTIC AND FOCUSED. IN ORDER TO REALIZE GAIN, BE PREPARED TO WORK FOR IT. SUCCESSFUL PROCEDURES OBLIVIOUS TO OTHERS WILL BE OBVIOUS. FOCUS WHEN IN DOUBT,SEEK OUT THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE. THE SECRET TO SUCCESS IS BEING A GOOD LISTENER. DEVOTE TIME TO TASKS NEGLECTED FOR FAR TOO LONG. STRIVE TO DO YOUR BEST AT WHATEVER YOU PUT YOUR HAND TO. ACT ON SPONTANEOUS IDEAS. NEVER STOP. THE WRONG METHOD COULD TAKE ONE OFF TRACK. BEFORE PLAYING A TRUMP CARD, BE MINDFUL OF THE STRENGTH OF THE COMPETITION. TURN TO PHILOSOPHICAL BELIEFS FOR ANSWERS. PARTY! AVOID MAKING CONFLICTING COMMITMENTS. GIVE FULL EXPRESSION TO INCLINATIONS TO GENERATE MORE INCOME. DECISIONS SHOULD NOT BE PREDICATED UPON AN EASY OUT. CHECK EXTRAVAGANCES. ASSOCIATE WITH PERSONS WHOSE BELIEFS MESH WITH YOURS. SELECT COMPANIONS WHO ENHANCE YOUR IMAGE. BE A TEAM PLAYER. EVALUATE WHAT'S IMPORTANT IN YOUR LIFE. SOMETIMES, IT IS WISER TO MAKE CONCESSIONS. PLAY TO WIN BUT HANDLE IT LIKE A GAME, NOT AS A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH. BE AWARE OF LIMITATIONS. PRIME THE PUMP TO GET THE DESIRED FLOW. BE ASSERTIVE, REGARDLESS OF WHO GETS ANGRY. STUDY THINGS BEFORE TACKLING ANYTHING DIFFICULT. ANGRY VERBAL EXCHANGES CAN BE AVOIDED BY KEEPING ONE'S OPINIONS TO ONESELF. SHARE HOPES WITH OTHERS. INFUSE NEW VITALITY INTO SITUATIONS THAT ARE BEGINNING TO FRAY AT THE EDGES. TAKE ON ALL THAT IS THROWN AT YOU.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. (Sir Winston Churchill)

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. (Thomas Watson — 1874-1956, Chairman of IBM, 1943)

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. (Edmund Burke)

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? (Will Rogers)

You could not have believed your own weakness had you not been compelled to pass through the rivers; and you would never have known God's strength had you not been supported amid the water-floods. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)

Most of us live only within the level of consciousness — consciously serving and consciously devoted to God. This shows immaturity and the fact that we're not yet living the real Christian life. Maturity is produced in the life of a child of God on the unconscious level, until we become so totally surrendered to God that we are not even aware of being used by Him. When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured-out wine, we have yet another level to reach — a level where all awareness of ourselves and of what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint — a saint is consciously dependent on God. (Oswald Chambers)

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions — it only guarantees equality of opportunity. (Irving Kristol)

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. (Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977)

640K ought to be enough for anybody. (Bill Gates, 1981)

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. (Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962)

Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan. (John F. Kennedy)

Everything that can be invented has been invented. (Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899)

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. (Mark Twain)

The promises of God are of no value to us until, through obedience, we come to understand the nature of God. We may read some things in the Bible every day for a year and they may mean nothing to us. Then, because we have been obedient to God in some small detail, we suddenly see what God means and His nature is instantly opened up to us. (Oswald Chambers)

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. (Abraham Lincoln)

Nothing conceits like success. (Al Bernstein)

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. (Tom Clancy)

Nothing fails like success because you do not learn anything from it. The only thing we ever learn from is failure. (Dr. Wayne Dyer)

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. (Ben Franklin)

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. (Wernher Von Braun)

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. (Albert Einstein)

We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is. (Saint Augustine)

A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

The Bible is the rope God throws us in order to ensure that we stay connected while the rescue is in progress. (J. I. Packer)

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. (Helen Keller)

God is subtle but he is not malicious. (Albert Einstein)

The Holy One...requires the heart (The Talmud)

When we discern that other people are not growing spiritually and allow that discernment to turn to criticism, we block our fellowship with God. God never gives us discernment so that we may criticize, but that we may intercede. (Oswald Chambers)

There are three kinds of giving: grudge giving says "I have to"; duty giving says "I ought to"; thanksgiving says "I want to." (Robert Rodenmayer)

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small. (Friedrich von Logau)

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. (Shakespeare)

A bad habit is like a soft chair — easy to get into but hard to get out of. (ODB)

Do not pursue what is illusory — property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life — don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. (Voltaire)

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. (Mark Twain)

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. (Marcus Aurelius)

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief (Gerry Spence)

The deeper our troubles, the louder our thanks to God, who has led us through all, and preserved us until now. Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, "He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad." (Charles H. Spurgeon)

You are God's king: reign over your lusts. You are God's chosen: do not associate with Belial. Heaven is your portion: live like a heavenly spirit, so shall you prove that you have true faith in Jesus, for there cannot be faith in the heart unless there be holiness in the life. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

A man who is ruler of his passions is master of the world. (Dominic — Founder of order of preachers, 13th Century)

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. (Henry David Thoreau)

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. (George Gordon Noel Byron — 1788-1824)

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and non-learners. (Benjamin Barber)

This new life will reveal itself in conscious repentance followed by unconscious holiness, never the other way around.(Oswald Chambers)

Is what you're living for worth dying for? (ODB)

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. (Henry David Thoreau)

It is impossible to live pleasurably without living prudently, honorably, and justly; or to live prudently, honorably, and justly, without living pleasurably. (Epicurus — 341-270 B.C.)

If a man points at the moon, an idiot will look at the finger. (Sufi wisdom)

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. (Malayan proverb)

Personally I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like to be taught. (Sir Winston Churchill)

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. (John Churton Collins)

Salvation is easy for us, because it cost God so much. But the exhibiting of salvation in my life is difficult. God saves a person, fills him with the Holy Spirit, and then says, in effect, "Now you work it out in your life, and be faithful to Me, even though the nature of everything around you is to cause you to be unfaithful." And Jesus says to us, "... I have called you friends...." Remain faithful to your Friend, and remember that His honor is at stake in your bodily life. (Oswald Chambers)

Without God we can't; without us He won't. (Anonymous)

Take God's promises to heart, but never take them for granted. (ODB)

God does not tell us what He is going to do, He reveals who He is. (Oswald Chambers)

I am defeated and know it if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything. (George Herbert Palmer)

In the initial stages it will be a continual effort to abide, but as you continue, it will become so much a part of your life that you will abide in Him without any conscious effort. Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future. (Oswald Chambers)

Noise proves nothing — often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. (Mark Twain)

To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone. (Suzanne Gordon)

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. (Indian proverb)

Believer, go to the throne for a large supply of heavenly salt. It will season thine afflictions, which are unsavoury without salt; it will preserve thy heart which corrupts if salt be absent, and it will kill thy sins even as salt kills reptiles. Thou needest much; seek much, and have much. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is "look under foot." You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. (John Burroughs)

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it. (Henry George)

Any problem that comes while I obey God (and there will be many), increases my overjoyed delight, because I know that my Father knows and cares, and I can watch and anticipate how He will unravel my problems. (Oswald Chambers)[PEACE RESIGNATION ATTITUDE]

Prayer can do anything that God can do. (E.M. Bounds)

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men. (Captain J. A. Hadfield) [ATTITUDE]

I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life? (Anonymous) [ATTITUDE]

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. (Henry Ford) [ATTITUDE]

We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. (Indira Ghandi)[PEACE]

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper. (Thomas Fuller) [HUMILITY]

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. (Mary Hemingway) [ATTITUDE]

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. (Dale Carnegie)

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. (Alice Walker) [EMPOWER]

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. (Menander) [COMMITMENT]

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. (Dorothy Parker)[EPITAPH]

You train people how to treat you by how you treat yourself. (Martin Rutte) [ATTITUDE]

Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, is of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important. (C.S. Lewis)

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. (G. K. Chesterton) [HUMILITY ATTITUDE]

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness. (Lao-Tze)

If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine.... (John 7:17) [TRUTH]

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. (Martin Luther King, Jr.) [WORK SERVICE ATTITUDE]

It is only a faithful person who truly believes that God sovereignly controls his circumstances. We take our circumstances for granted, saying God is in control, but not really believing it. We act as if the things that happen were completely controlled by people. (Oswald Chambers)[PEACE RESIGNATION ATTITUDE]

With focused attention and great care, you have to "work out" what God "works in" you — not work to accomplish or earn "your own salvation," but work it out so you will exhibit the evidence of a life based with determined, unshakable faith on the complete and perfect redemption of the Lord. As you do this, you do not bring an opposing will up against God's will — God's will is your will. Your natural choices will be in accordance with God's will, and living this life will be as natural as breathing. (Oswald Chambers) [ATTITUDE]

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. (James Russell Lowell — 1819-1891) [FEAR FEARFULNESS]

Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good. (Albert Schweitzer) [ATTITUDE]

Charity sees the need not the cause. (German proverb) [LOVE]

We have passed through one more year. One more long stage in the journey of life, with its ascents and descents and dust and mud and rocks and thorns and burdens that wear the shoulders, is done. The old year is dead. Roll it away. Let it go. God, in His providence, has brought us out of it. It is gone...; its evil is gone; its good remains. The evil has perished, and the good survives. (Henry Ward Beecher) [ATTITUDE]

A man who has not suffered, what does he know? (Henry Suso) [SUFFERING]

Joy is the serious business of heaven. (C.S. Lewis) [ATTITUDE]

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. (William James)

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. (Elizabeth Bowen) [FEAR COURAGE] [ATTITUDE]

Natural devotion may be enough to attract us to Jesus, to make us feel His irresistible charm, but it will never make us disciples. Natural devotion will deny Jesus, always falling short of what it means to truly follow Him. (Oswald Chambers)

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with. (Steven Stills) [ATTITUDE]

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much. (Tove Jansson)

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. (Alan Alda) [COURAGE]

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. (Anonymous) [FRET FRETFULNESS]

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. (Aristotle)

People fail forward to success. (Mary Kay Ash)

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. (Franz Kafka) [MEDITATION MEDITATE ATTITUDE]

You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate. (Hubert H. Humphrey)[FAIR FAIRNESS MISERY ATTITUDE]

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life — the life God is sending one day by day: what one calls one's 'real life' is a phantom of one's own imagination. This at least is what I see at moments of insight: but it's hard to remember it all the time. (C.S. Lewis)[SUFFERING ATTITUDE]