“ 'Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.”

            Tennyson

“Every man I meet is [superior to me] in some way.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson  [better than me]

“Joy shared is double joy; sorrow shared is half sorrow.”

A Swedish saying

“It matter not how small the beginnings may seem to be, what is once well done is done forever.”

Henry David Thoreau

“In wilderness is the preservation of life.”

Henry David Thoreau

"No man is rich enough to buy back his past. "

Oscar Wilde

"You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you."

Unknown

"We could all use a spiritual awakening right now, but an awakening, whether in our homes, our communities, or our nation, can only follow a sincere change in each heart, one heart at a time.  If we'll take a good honest look inside, God will do the rest.  He said He would."

            Frank E. Peretti, author of This Present Darkness,

"O God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."

Reinhold Niebuhr

The Serenity Prayer used for AA

Do not love the world or anything in the world.  If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1 John 2:15

Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.  They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Isaiah 40:30-31

Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.

1 John 2:6

For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, of love and of a sound mind.

2 Tim 1:7

Human wisdom is so tinny, so impotent, next to the seeming absurdity of God.  Human strength can't begin to compete with God's "weakness."

            1 Corinthians 1:25

Stay calm; mind your own business; do your job.

            1 Thessalonians 4:11

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

            John 8:32 (NIV)

“Opportunity: Don't wait for your ship to come in . . .  swim out to it.”

            Succesories

“A thousand mile journey begins with one step.”

            Succesories

“For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.”

            Thoreau

“What you are shouts so loudly in my ears that I cannot hear what you say .”

Emerson

For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works.

Matt 16:26-27 (NKJ)

Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Psalm 51:10

“In the married life there is more safety; in the single, more sorrow. Even though the married life brings more burdens, it is all carried by the power of constant love.”

            16th century Bishop

“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

Edmund Burke

“Tell me, I’ll forget.

Show me, I may understand.

Involve me, I’ll remember.”

Chinese Proverb

"You can't make someone love you, all you can do is be
someone who can be loved, the rest is up to the person to
realize your worth. It's better to
lose your pride to the one you love, than to lose the one
you love because of pride."

Unknown

"Work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt, Dance
like nobody's watching."

Unknown

"Thou love shall be lost, love shall not."

Thomas (Quoted in Solaris)

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

Gandolf the Grey (Lord of the Rings I)