Thursday, September 30, 2010

When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.
-Scott Belsky

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
-Rumi
Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling
in love with you I had no control over.
-Unknown
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that
you can't utter.
-James Earl Jones
For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as
bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood
do but make it pulse more vigorously.
-George Gissing
To wait open-endedly is an enormously radical attitude toward life. So
is to trust that something will happen to us that is far beyond our
imaginings. So, too, is giving up control over our future and letting
God define our life, trusting that God molds us according to His love
and not according to our fear... That, indeed, is a very radical
stance toward life in a world preoccupied with control.
-Henri Nouwen
The truth is a trap: you can not get it without it getting you; you
cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
-Soren Kierkegaard
Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the
perception and experience of life as a gift.
-Henri Nouwen
So I go to church, not because of any legalistic or moralistic reasons,
but because I am a hungry sheep who needs to be fed;
and for the same reason that I wear a wedding ring: a public witness
of a private commitment.
-Madeleine L'Engle
He who makes himself his own master subjects himself to a fool for a master.
-Bernard of Clairvaux
There are four ways God answers prayer:
1) No, not yet;
2) No, I love you too much;
3) Yes, I thought you'd never ask;
4) Yes, and here's more.
-Anne Lewis

Monday, September 27, 2010

Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.
-Glade Byron Addams

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Be kind. For everyone is fighting a hard battle.
-Plato

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never
yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
-Johann Kaspar Lavater
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-Grace Hansen
Expect hope to be rekindled.
Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways.
The dry seasons in life do not last.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

I like flaws and feel more comfortable
around people who have them.
I myself am made entirely of flaws,
stitched together with good intentions.
-Augusten Burroughs

Monday, September 20, 2010

True love stories never have endings.
-Richard Bach

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of
other people's business.
-Dolley Madison
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
-Benjamin Franklin

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

By all these lovely tokens September days are here,
With summer's best of weather
And autumn's best of cheer.
-Helen Hunt Jackson

Monday, September 13, 2010

By hating someone, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.
-Sri Chinmoy
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that
you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
-Rainer Maria Rilke

Friday, September 10, 2010

Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable
with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no
security, but only adventure.
-Rachel Naomi Remen

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
-Joseph Joubert
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to
ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should
know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to
know it.
-Sir William Haley
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
-Garrison Keillor

Saturday, September 4, 2010

When summer gathers up her robes of glory,
And, like a dream, glides away.
-Sarah Helen Whitman
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
-C. G. Jung
Large changes are brought about by the accumulation of small decisions.
-Alfred E. Kahn
If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you
will ignore what is.
-Unknown

Friday, September 3, 2010

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change
them yourself.
-Andy Warhol
I have decided to be happy because it is good for my health.
-Voltaire
So one thing I want to say about life is don't be scared and don't
hang back, and most of all, don't waste it.
-Joan W. Blos
 

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