By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. ~Thomas Merton
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. ~Lauren Bacall
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ~Charles Schulz
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ~James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription. ~Finley Peter Dunne
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. ~Doug Larson
One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
Our lives are like quilts - bits and pieces, joy and sorrow, stitched with love. ~Author Unknown
Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband. ~Kin Hubbard
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. ~Kahlil Gibran
It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going. ~Groucho Marx
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. ~Author Unknown
Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush. ~Horace
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. ~Matthew 12:33
The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals. ~Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. ~Baha'u'llah
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. ~Marcel Proust
Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale. ~Robert Graves
There are ten church members by inheritance for every one by conviction. ~Author Unknown
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way. ~Bernie S. Siegel
Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. ~Mark Twain
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. ~E.V. Lucas
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." ~Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963
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