More of My Favorite Quotes

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. - Zora Neale Hurston

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a good thing. - Agatha Christe

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Where there is great love there are always miracles. - Willa Carter

Until you make peace with who you are, you will never be content with what you have. - Doris Mortman

If one is a greyhound why try to look like a pekingese? - Dame Edith Sitwell

It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Elliot

Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order. - Anne Wilson Schaef

She endured. And survived. Marginally, perhaps, but it is not required of us that we live well. - Anne Cameron

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. - Colette

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. - Annie Dillard

Concern should drive us into action and not into depression. - Karen Horney

Once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always. - Margery Williams

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. - Anais Nin

There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell

Victory comes through defeat. Healing through brokenness. Finding self through losing self. - Charles Colson

God has a higher purpose for his people, and he is faithful to use our most painful times to mature us, to draw us into closer dependence on him. - Vicki Kraft

Wait for God, even if the night seems dark. He will give you everything you need when you need it. It may not be what you want or expect, but it is the best. - Peter Wallace

When we feel stuck in a dark room of doubt, or pain, or discomfort, or angst, Satan sometimes tempts us to think we will be in this miserable place forever. Then God reminds us of tomorrow. The future is like a long black corridor with light shining dimly under the door. Though we may feel alone locked in one of the rooms off the hallway, we can hear the passing of feet, and we can pray to God to unlock the door and to walk with us toward the slim band of light visible just ahead. The ability to project past the present pain gives us hope and endurance, leading us towards the light of a better day. - Leslie Williams

God is doing a greater work in us, and that can only come as we learn to trust him no matter how dark the days and sleepless the nights. And it is only as we have been through the darkness with him that what we know with our heads slides down into our hearts, and our hearts no longer demand answers. The why becomes unimportant when we believe that God can and will redeem the pain for our good and his glory. - Verdell Davis

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. - William James

Unless you do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."

Go over, go under, or go through. But never give up.

In the end, each of us will be judged by our standard of life, not by our stardard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness.

In times of change, there is no incentive so great, and no medicine so powerful as hope for a better tomorrow.

Courage is daring to take that first step, or a different path. It is the decision to place your dreams above your fears.

You are truly successful when you can look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, and up with gratitude.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become actions. Understand your actions, for they become habits. Study your habits, for they will become your character. Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny.

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong....because sometime in your life you will have been all of these.

Listen to the calling of your heart and the true riches of life will follow.



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