Manna From Heaven

"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh 

thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, 

certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, 

and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away."

~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

If, At First ...

"The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility."

~ Thomas S. Monson 

Knowledge Is Power

"My father used to say, 'Don't raise your voice.  

Improve your argument.'" 

~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Boldly Go

"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage.  

When they are real, they are not unto glass thread or frostwork, 

but the solidest thing we know."  

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

On Cultivating Friendships

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.  True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

 

~ George Washington

 

 

Seize The Day!

"The pursuit of happiness is a matter of choice ... it is a positive attitude we choose to express. It is not a gift delivered to our door each morning, nor does it come through the window. And it is certain that our circumstances are not the things that make us joyful. If we wait for them to get just right, we will never laugh again."

~ Charles R. Swindoll

 

 

On A Proper Perspective

"I like living.  I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

 

~ Agatha Christie

 

 

On Measuring Up

"The only person who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me."

 

~ George Bernard Shaw

 

 

Live It To Preach It

“Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.”

~St. Francis of Assisi

On Happiness

"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. 
It is too good to be wasted on jokes."
 

~ C.S. Lewis

Tried and True

"Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar; those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel."

 

~ William Shakespeare

Sunlight on Water

"I want God. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water."

 

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

On Becoming Beautiful

"We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words — to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it." 

~  C.S. Lewis  (being profoundly genius with words, as usual)

On Having a Good Character

"A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble".

 ~ Charles H. Spurgeon