Sunday, June 6, 2010

Garrison Kellior

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

Richard Bach

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Henry Drummond

Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned.

Mother Theresa

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.

C. S. Lewis

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.

G. K. Chesterton

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Abraham Kuyper

When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.

Martin Luther

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Henry Miller

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

Frederick Keonig

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ernest Hemingway

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Oscar Wilde

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

Dale Carnegie

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

B. C. Forbes

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Art Linkletter

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

Christopher Robin

You are braver than you know, stronger than you imagine and smarter than you think

Roger Rosenblatt

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves; and where they dream.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Elbert Hubbard

Happiness is a habit - cultivate it.

Dante

Infinite goodness has wide arms.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

Mignon McLaughlin

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Louis Armstrong

What we play is life.

Marguerite Yourcenar

All happiness is a form of innocence.

Jacqueline Bisset

Character contributes to beauty.

Jonathan Swift

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

Papa Ramadas

Simplicity is the nature of great souls.