You weren’t an accident. You weren’t mass produced. You aren’t an assembly line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.
Max Lucado
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
Thich Nhat Hanh
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Flavia Weedn
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Jerome Cummings
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Dale Carnegie
When the world pushes you to your knees,
you are in a perfect position to pray.
A religious quote (thanks Diane!)
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
Charles Allen
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
Love is not blind — it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi J. Gordon
Money can’t buy you happiness. But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike Milligan
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire
You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
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 at the onset.
Lytton
Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body.
Pythagoras
Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Ralph Blum