You have to leave room for God to walk through the room
-Quincy Jones
October 3
Death & love are two wings that bear the good man to Heaven.
-Maya Angelo
October 4
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
-e.e. cummings
October 5
The science of loving, yes, that's the only kind of science I want. I'd barter away everything I possess to win it.
-St. Therese of Lisieux
October 6
If there be anywhere on Earth a lover of God who always kept safe from falling, I know nothing of it--for it was not shown to me. But this was shown--that in falling and rising again we are always held close in one love.
-St. Julian of Norwich
October 7
Great is the art of beginning,
but greater is the art of ending.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
October 8
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-H.L. Mencken
October 9
Wherever your treasure is, there your heart and thoughts will be.
-Luke 12:34
October 10
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
-Anne Frank
October 11
Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, the hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so either.
-Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
October 12
My hope is that more and more people will discover that the peace we all yearn for is not just the work of governments, but the task of each one of us.
-Jean Vanier
October 13
Where there is great love
there are always miracles.
-Willa Cather
October 14
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled again made clean.
-Dag Hammarskjold
October 15
To give without any reward or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
-Anne Morrow Lindberg
October 16
I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower--the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
-Helen Keller
October 17
God enters by a private door into every individual.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
October 18
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
-Peter Ustinov
October 19
Guard me as the apple of the eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings.
-Psalm 17:8
October 20
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
-John Muir
October 21
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
October 22
Let never day nor night
unhallowed pass, but
still remember what
the Lord hath done.
-William Shakespeare
October 23
Of all the earthly music, that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart.
-Henry Ward Beecher
October 24
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
-George Washington Carver
October 25
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
October 26
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
-Mary Martin
October 27
The first duty of love is to listen.
-Paul Tillich
October 28
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
-Desmond Tutu
October 29
As in the flint the fire,
as in the seed the tree,
so is God's likeness hid
in everything I see.
-Angelus Silesius
October 30
Let's be grateful for those who give us happiness; they are the charming gardeners who make our soul bloom.
