Diane Bethel - love

"Love is what extended her life. She had to give it as much as receive it to be happy. Dogs [indeed, all animals] extend our lives, if the truth be known." ~Diane Bethel

Edward J. Phelps - errors

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." ~Edward J. Phelps on Errors

Sir John Denham Quotes

"Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was." ~Sir John Denham

"Nothing happens until something moves." ~Sir John Denham

Katherine Mansfield Quotes

"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing." ~Katherine Mansfield

“I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.” ~Katherine Mansfield 

"It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go and how to go. The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough." ~Katherine Mansfield

"Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing in." ~Katherine Mansfield 

"The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough." ~Katherine Mansfield

"There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines." ~Katherine Mansfield

Joseph J. Sweere - gifts

"The greatest gift you can give others is your best you—your healthiest you." ~Joseph J. Sweere

Peri Wolfman - life

"We don't have a lot of control in life, but we really do have control over the objects in our homes. So when the world is spinning too fast and you feel completely crazed, just get the things around you settled." ~Peri Wolfman

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche Quotes

"It is the tender heart that has the power to transform the world." ~Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

“Regard fear as the kindling to build a big fire of fearlessness.” ~Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

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Jo Coudert Quotes

"It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good and decent human being, but it is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable. It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love, but it is vital to believe yourself deserving of these things." ~Jo Coudert

"Obsession with the personal ravages our lives. When we can see only our problems, we've very little perspective and no distance, which makes the problem seem huge. Being aware of that, we come to appreciate that while our invidual problems matter greatly, they really don't matter very much at all." ~Jo Coudert

"To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution." ~Jo Coudert

George Clason -confidence

"If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things." ~George Clason

Paul Pastrano Gangoso Quotes

"Our disunity in ideas define our unity of cause. Our frailty shows our overlying might." ~Paul Pastrano Gangoso, "After the Long Festive Day - Prose from the Countryside:Circa 2002." Source: Facebook, 20 December 2011

"Sometimes the world is not enough for those who knows no real love and compassion, humility and human sacrifice." ~Paul Pastrano Gangoso FB, 10 November 2012

Joseph Falco Quotes

"I am a man of modest means, but I'm wealthy with my dreams. You can't buy imagination." ~Joseph Falco

"In any competition it's the one who loses that exhibits true behaviour. Anyone can win or lose, but it takes a dignified person to accept their grace under pressure." ~Joseph Falco

Charles C. West - foundations

"We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them." ~Charles C. West

James Clerk Maxwell - service

"Teach us to study the works of Thy hands ... and strengthen our reason for Thy service." ~James Clerk Maxwell, from Our Daily Bread

Edward Coke - certainty

"Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions." ~Edward Coke

Joe Stowell - Quotes

"God is the throbbing center of our lives." ~Joe Stowell, Our Daily Bread

"If something is missing in your life, remember that God is the only One who can fully and abundantly satisfy you. Let Him complete the picture of your life." ~Joe Stowell, Our Daily Bread

"One of the joys of being with kids is holding their hands. We do it to keep them safe while crossing the streetm or to keep them from getting lost in a crowd. And whenever they stumble and lose their footing, we grab their little hands tighter to keep them from falling." ~Joe Stowell, Our Daily Bread

"The person makes the place." ~Joe Stowell, Our Daily Bread

"The powerful hand of God is holding your hand and walking you through life-all the way home!" ~Joe Stowell, Our Daily Bread

"We get used to places no matter how glorious they are. But being with the a person who loves us never gets old." ~Joe Stowell, Our Daily Bread

"When it comes to jigsaw puzzles, we all know that to enjoy a satisfying outcome you need all the pieces. ... life is like that. We spend our days putting it together, hoping to create a complete picture out of all the scattered parts." ~Joe Stowell, Our Daily Bread

"When the wave of sin threw us onto the shore of to die, God sent His Son to walk on the beach to rescue all who would repent." ~Joe Stowell, Our Daily Bread

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William Pollard - opportunity

"It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute." ~William Pollard

Sylvia Plath Quotes

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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." ~Sylvia Plath

"Every night I die quietly in my bed, and every morning I wake to the funeral of myself." ~Sylvia Plath

"God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering." ~Sylvia Plath

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.” ~Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am." ~Sylvia Plath

"Is there no way out of the mind?" ~Sylvia Plath

"Kiss me and you will see how important I am." ~Sylvia Plath

"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." ~Sylvia Plath

"There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone." ~Sylvia Plath

"There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them." ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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“Remember, remember,
this is now, and now,
and now. Live it, feel it,
cling to it. I want to become
acutely aware of all I’ve
taken for granted.” ~Sylvia Plath

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Jim Valvano Quotes

"Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it." ~Jim Valvano, from Our Daily Bread

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give to another person; he believed in me.” ~Jim Valvano

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Arthur F. Corey - idea

“An idea is the only level which moves the world.” ~Arthur F. Corey

John Wheeler - music

"I never cease to be amazed at how music expresses so many endless varieties of the human experience and the human condition. " ~John Wheeler

Nick Vujicic QUOTES

"God doesn't make mistakes; neither of us is a mistake. God knew exactly what He was doing when He created both of us." ~Nick Vujicic via On Wings of Hope

"God won't let anything happen to us in our life unless He has a good purpose for it all." ~Nick Vujicic, from Our Daily Bread

"If I can trust God with my circumstances, then you can trust in God with your circumstances...The greatest joy of all is having Jesus Christ in my life and living the godly purpose He has for me." ~Nick Vujicic, from Our Daily Bread

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David Roper Quotes

"Amid all the clamor and din of this visible and audible world, listen carefully for God's quiet voice. Listen to Him in the Bible. Talk to Him frequently in prayer. Look for Him in your circumstances. Seek Him. He is with you wherever you go." ~David Roper, Our Daily Bread

"God is with us wherever we go. He is in the commonplace, whether we know it or not."
~David Roper, Our Daily Bread

"Humility and contrition are the keys that open the heart of God." ~David Roper, Our Daily Bread

"Physical beauty all too quickly fades away; all one's efforts to keep it are doomed to fail. But there is an inner beauty-authentic beauty that will endure forever-in the one "who fears on the Lord. (Prov. 31:30)" ~David Roper, Our Daily Bread

"Pray, love, teach by word and example. Your little place is not a steppingstone to greatness. It is greatness." ~David Roper, Our Daily Bread

"Waiting is hard. What do we do when God seems to withhold our heart's desire? He is able to help us to love and trust Him enough to accept the delay with joy and to see it as an opportunity to develop these virtues- submission, humility, patience, joyful endurance, persistence in well-doing... virtues that take the longest to learn."
~David Roper

"We live in a culture where bigger is better, where size is the measure of success. It takes a strong person to resist that trend, especially if he or she is laboring in a small place. But size is nothing; substance is everything." ~David Roper, Our Daily Bread

"We take the Lord's presence with us all through the day, blending work and play with prayer. He is our teacher, our philosopher, our companion-our gentle, kind, and very best friend." ~David Roper, Our Daily Bread

"We want the instant solution, the quick fix, but some things cannot be disposed of so readily; they can only be accepted. God will keep us by His love. By His grace, we can rest in Him." ~David Roper (Our Daily Bread)


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Haruki Murakami Quotes

"A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect." ~ Haruki Murakami

"And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in." ~Haruki Murakami

"As time goes on, you'll understand. What last lasts; what doesn't doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve to yourself." ~Haruki Murakami 

“At times, we tend to avert our eyes from the shadow, those negative parts, or else, try to forcibly eliminate those aspects. No matter how high a wall we build to keep intruders out, no matter how strictly we exclude outsiders, no matter how much we rewrite history to suit us, we just end up damaging and hurting ourselves. You have to patiently learn to live together with your shadow and carefully observe the darkness that resides within you.” ~Haruki Murakami

"But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.” ~Haruki Murakami

"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it." ~Haruki Murakami

"Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent." ~Haruki Murakami 

"How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvellous." ~Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ~ Haruki Murakami

"Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?" ~Haruki Murakami

"Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering." ~Haruki Murakami

"My body no longer belonged to me. My arms, my legs, my head, all moved wildly over the dance floor unconnected to my thoughts. I gave myself to the dance, and all the while I could hear distinctly the transit of the stars, the shifting of the tides, the racing of the wind. This was truly what it meant to dance." ~Haruki Murakami, The Dancing Dwarf

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” ~Haruki Murakami

"No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone." ~Haruki Murakami

“Not just beautiful, though–the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.” ~Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"Sometimes the hardest storms to get through are the ones your soul needs most. And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. But, survive, you did. And one thing is certain: When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm’s all about." ~Haruki Murakami

"Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can't buy." ~Haruki Murakami

“That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said, Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.” ~Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day." ~ from Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

"Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams." ~Haruki Murakami

"When the storm is over, you may not comprehend how you made it through; you might not even be sure it's over. But one thing is certain - when you come out the other end, you won't be the same person who waled in." ~Haruki Murakami

"What happens when people open their hearts? They get better." ~Haruki Murakami

"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about." ~Haruki Murakami

“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.”

~Haruki Murakami

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Heywood Hale Broun Quotes

"Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment." ~Heywood Hale Broun

"Unfortunately, I have an open mind. I let down a window in my brain about six ir seven inches from the top even in the bitterest weather." ~Heywood Hale Broun

Rowena Caranto - lessons

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"Every trial we go through has a purpose. It teaches us lessons. The bottom line is to develop the very character of God." ~Rowena Caranto

Quotes

"How brief is our span of life compared with the time since you created the universe. How tiny we are compared with the enormity of your universe. How trivial are our concerns compared with the complexity of your universe. How stupid we are compared with the genius of your creation. Yet during every minute and every second of our lives you are present, within and around us. You give your whole and undivided attention to each and every one of us. Our concerns are your concerns. And you are infinitely patient with our stupidity. I thank you with all my heart - knowing that my thanks are worthless compared to your greatness." ~St. Fulbert of Chartres (960-1028)

"Prayer is a conversation of love. It is the sweet song of love, composed by the Creator of the universe, flowing from His wide heart to encompass each one of us. God seeks intimacy with us and prayer is the language of that intimacy, our means of communication and intimacy with the Holy God, the One Who loves us with the great heart of a father." ~"Remarkable Answered Prayers"

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