Friday, August 27, 2010

Goals are dreams with deadlines.
-Diana Scharf Hunt
Joy is the daughter of peace.
-Finnish proverb
Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
-George S. Patton Jr.
Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.
-Pierre Corneille

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Love is the beauty of the soul.
-St. Augustine
The place where God calls us is the place where our deep joy and the
world's deep hunger meet.
-Frederick Buechner
We must love one another or die.
-Auden
A happy marriage is the union of two forgivers.
-Ruth Bell Graham
There is no other happiness than God, and ourselves united to him.
-Pascal

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
-Whoopi Goldberg
Your Savior knows your breaking point.
The bruising and crushing and melting process is designed to reshape
you, not ruin you.
Your value is increasing the longer He lingers over you.
-Terry Rush
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a
prudent enemy is preferable.
-Jean de La Fontaine

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Have courage for the great sorrows of life
and patience for the small ones;
and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task,
go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
-Victor Hugo
You can upgrade every aspect of your life without a lot of money
and with no more time than you're spending now.
Start... with the simplest of discernments,
choosing something that's just a bit delightful
over something that isn't.
-Victoria Moran
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs
and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
Nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass,
glory in the flower.
We will grieve not,
rather find strength in what remains behind.
-William Wordsworth
When I think I'm going under,
part the waters, Lord.
When I feel the waves around me,
calm the sea.
When I cry for help, oh, hear me, Lord
and hold out Your hand...
Touch my life,
Still the raging storm in me.
-Charles F. Brown
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
-Emily Dickinson
Dreams are postcards from our subconscious,
inner self to outer self,
right brain trying to cross that moat to the left.
-from Northern Exposure
Home is the nicest word there is.
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
A bargain is something you can't use
at a price you can't resist.
-Franklin Jones
I dwell in possibility.
-Emily Dickinson
Knitting is very conducive to thought.
It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles,
write a while, then take up ... again.
-Dorothy Day
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
-Larry Niven
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Spring has returned
The Earth is like a child
that knows poems.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap
but by the seeds that you plant.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
The trouble with organizing...
is that pretty soon folks get to paying
more attention to the organization
than to what they're organized for.
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.
-Charles Fillmore
Show me your garden
and I shall tell you what you are.
-Alfred Austin
Green is the prime color of the world,
and that from which its loveliness arises.
-Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Spring beckons!
All things to the call respond;
the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
-Ambrose Bierce
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
-Jane Austen
Do not abandon yourselves to despair.
We are the Easter people
And hallelujah is our song.
-Pope John Paul II
The peace and beauty of a spring day
had descended upon the earth
like a benediction.
-Kate Chopin
Good apple pies are a considerable part
of our domestic happiness.
-Jane Austen
There is not much danger that real talent
or goodness will be overlooked long.
-Louisa May Alcott
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you get simple beauty and naught else,
you get about the best thing God invents.
-Robert Browning
There are few hours in life more agreeable
than the hour dedicated to the
ceremony known as afternoon tea.
-Henry James
All lovely things will have an ending.
-Conrad Aiken
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt,
head in the sun, heart with nature.
To nurture a garden is to feed
not just on the body, but the soul.
-Alfred Austin
I like being outdoors.
It is just another world.
-Bette Page
A sister is a little bit of childhood
that can never be lost.
-Marion C. Garretty
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is
exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only
different kinds of good weather.
-John Ruskin
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer
is too small to be made into a burden.
-Corrie Ten Boom
Life is full and overflowing with the new.
But it is necessary to empty out the old
to make room for the new to enter.
-Eileen Caddy
I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
-Marilyn Monroe
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough
to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
-Frank A. Clark
A letter is a good way to go somewhere
without moving anything but your heart.
-Phyllis Theroux
I remember my mother's prayers
and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.
-Abraham Lincoln
Bread... and butter are of venerable antiquity.
They taste of the morning of the world.
-Leigh Hunt
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
I adore simple pleasures.
They are the last refuge of the complex.
-Oscar Wilde
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
-OVID
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
-Barbara deAngelis
Summer has filled her veins with light
and her heart is washed with noon.
-C. Day Lewis
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
-Max Beerbohm
 Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and someday I would arrive at it.
-Camryn Manheim
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
-Wayne Dyer

Monday, August 16, 2010

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety.
It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
-Swami Kriyananda

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
-Dee Hock

Monday, August 9, 2010

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
-Neil Armstrong

Friday, August 6, 2010

I am in love with Ocean
lifting her thousands of white hats
in the chop of the storm,
or lying smooth and blue, the
loveliest bed in the world.
-Mary Oliver
The waves of the sea
Help me get back to me.
-Jill Davis
The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
-Jacques Cousteau

Thursday, August 5, 2010

God delights to increase the faith of His children.
-George Muller

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know
that sometimes nothing is better.
-Glenda Jackson
 

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