QUOTES FOR THE HEART
"Where there is no vision, the people parish."
-Proverbs 29:18
"Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: it effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end."
-Germaine de Stael
"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."
-Milan Kundera
"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers."
-Maya Angelou
"The Angels were all singing out of tune,
And hoarse with nothing else to do,
Excepting to wind up the sun and moon,
Or curb a runaway young star or two."
-Lord Byron "The Vision of Judgement"
"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we have gained by prying into that matter."
-Mark Twain
"The sun is but a morning star."
-Thoreau
"Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you."
-Princess Diana
"It is as close as the harvest moon in the evening sky, as distant as a dream on wakening, near as a rainbow, so remote you could walk forever and never reach it."
-Anonymous
"Fairies are invisible and inaudible like angels. But their magic sparkled in Nature."
-Lynn Holland
"I believe that a blade of grass is nothing less than the journey work of stars."
-Walt Whitman
"Unshared joy is an unlighted candle."
-Spanish proverb
"If we lose the dreams, then we lose the colors and the melodies."
-Anonymous
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
-Helen Keller
"To See the World in a Grain of Sand,
And Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand,
And Eternity in an Hour."
-Blake
"I hear, and I forget;
I see, and I remember;
I do, and I understand."
-Chinese proverb
"Those colors which have no name are the real foundation of everything."
-van Gogh
"You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is actually wanting to do a specific thing."
-Max Picarel
"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."
-Antonio Gramsci
"Man's reach should exceed his grasp."
-Robert Browning
"Optimism. The belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly."
-Ambrose Bierce
"525, 600 minutes.
How do you measure a year?
In daylights-In sunsets
In midnights-In cups of coffee
In inches-In miles
In laughter-In strife
In 525, 600 minutes
How do you measure a year in the life?
Measure in L-O-V-E."
-"Rent"
"Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite."
-Christian Morganstern
"Blessed are the peacemakers."
Beatitudes, Mathew 5:9
~ANYWAY~ Mother Teresa
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
~LOVE THEM ANYWAY~
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
~DO GOOD ANYWAY~
If you are successful, you win false friends and enemies.
~SUCCEED ANYWAY~
The good you do will be forgotten tomorrow.
~DO GOOD ANYWAY~
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
~BE HONEST AND FRANK ANYWAY~
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
~BUILD ANYWAY~
People really need help but may attack you if you help them.
~HELP PEOPLE ANYWAY~
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
~GIVE THE WORLD THE BEST YOU'VE GOT ANYWAY~
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