So I've been collecting quotes,
and I thought I would post them here for others to see.
There are no Bible verses here,
I didn't want to mix the words of man with the words of God
"How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends. Life with immortality, splendor with righteousness, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness." — Clement of Rome
"Pass no rash condemnation on other people's words or actions. " — Thomas Kempis
"So live that your memories will be part of your happiness. " — Unattributed
"We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it." — John Owen
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. " — Abraham Lincoln
"Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships." — Jodie Foster
"Evil is nourished and grows by concealment. " — Virgil
"Many things have fallen only to rise higher." — Seneca
"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid." — Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
"To love for the sake of being loved is human. But to love for the sake of loving is angelic." — Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. " — Marcus Aurelius
"A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world." — Dorothy L. Sayers
"When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy." — unknown
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you." — Maori Proverb
"Good timber does not grow with ease - the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." — J. Willard Marriott
"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. " — Wayne Dyer
"There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. " — Benjamin Franklin
"I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves." — Alexander Humboldt
"Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics - it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality." — John W. Gardner
"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect." — Benjamin Franklin
"We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead. " — D.H. Lawrence
"Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you." — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." — Nelson Mandela
"A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence. " — Thoams Traherne
"Nothing recommends a man to the female mind more than courage. " — Unattributed
"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline - the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself." — Rabbi Abraham Heschel
"A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs." — Mark Twain
"Patience with others is Love. Patience with self is Hope. Patience with God is Faith." — Adel Bestavros
"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. " — George Washington
"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress." — Lloyd Alexander
"Our trials, our sorrows, and our griefs develop us." — Orison Swett Marden
"The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way. " — Henry Ward Beecher
"An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception." — Harold Loukes
"Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. " — Victor Hugo
"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give. " — Eleanor Roosevelt
"The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss. " — Thomas Kempis
"Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening. " — C. Neil Strait
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. " — Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places." — Ernest Hemingway
"Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. " — Henry James
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." — Art Linkletter
"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy." — Cynthia Nelms
"Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future. " — Unattributed
"To be conservative at twenty is heartless, and to be a liberal at sixty is plain idiocy." — Sir Winston Churchill
As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man. " — Thomas Kempis
"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image " ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Adversity is the touchstone of friendship." — French Proverb
"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there." — Will Rogers
"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step." — C. S. Lewis
"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. " — Plato
"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." — Clive Staples Lewis
"I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism. " — Charles Schwab
"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past." — Robertson Davies
"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along." — Madeleine L'Engle
"Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does." — Richard Exely
"There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again. Heartbroke. That's serious. Lose a few bucks. That's not." — Willie Nelson
"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult." — Charlotte Whitton
"Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new. " — Og Mandino
