"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente |
Quotes... Words of Wisdom and Encouragement |
The difference between "Bitter" and "Better" is one letter... but o' what a difference! -- BVR |
"I don't know what the future holds... but I do know that God is holding it..." Barbara Mandrell (Interview on PTL aired August 16, 2002) |
"Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it." Ted Williams |
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. Henry Van Dyke American Author and Clergyman "Nothing should be prized more highly than the value of each day." Goethe German Poet You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. Shira Tehrani "It is not length of life, but depth of life." Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." Abraham Lincoln 16th American President |
"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey." Stephen Covey Author of 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good." Author Unknown "There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day." Alexander Woollcott American Author When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. Cherokee Expression "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi Indian Political and Spiritual Leader "If you cannot be a poet, be the poem." David Carradine Actor, Director |
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is." Albert Einstein German-born Theoretical Physicist A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. Erin Majors Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success, For those of us who hope strongest have within us the gift of miracles. Sydney Bremer The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand. Robert Vallett Every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment. (Sonnet XV. 1-2) SHAKESPHERE In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength, but through persistence. Anon Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open. Alexander Graham Bell In Lifes Garden Count your garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your days by the golden hours, don't remember the clouds at all. Count your nights by the stars, not by shadows. Count your life with smiles not tears, and with joy through all your life. Count your age by friends not years. Irish Proverb May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand. Irish Proverb Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. Rabindranath Tagore Poet, Philosopher, Nobel Laureate "If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master." Michelangelo Italian Painter, Sculptor, Architect "When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home." Tecumseh Shawnee Indian Chief "I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain." Joyce Cary English Author "Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one." Vladimir Nobokov Russian-American Author |
"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all times you can, by all the means you can, as long as you can." John Wesley "Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind." Eleanor Roosevelt "I think only through suffering all our wonderful human qualities come out in us. Unless and until you suffer, how will you understand other suffering ?" Sree Chakravarti, A Healing Journey "We think we understand another person's struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives." Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest "Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows, who never weep for the sorrows of others very seldom have any ____ of their own. Great hearts could be made only by great troubles." Charles Spurgeon "In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others." Elisabeth Elliot "If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you've been taught, you might be able to help someone else who's now in the phase you may have just completed. Maybe that's what it's all about after all...." Unknown "When we suffer and handle it with grace, we're like walking billboards advertising the positive way God works in the life of someone who suffers." Joni Eareckson Tada "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely help another without helping himself." Ralph Waldo Emerson "How can you get to know God without suffering - - you can't ! Charles Stanley "It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God's business to think about me." Simone Weil 'We shall not cease from exploration, and at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and to know the place for the first time.' TS Elliott |
