Collecting Quotes

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

"Often it is the most deserving people 

who cannot help loving those who destroy them." 

— Hermann Hesse

"No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood 

until he has found that it is finer 

to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself. "

— Woodrow Wilson

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades 

is that man who hides one thing in his heart 

and speaks another."— Homer

"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. 

With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

 Voltaire

"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; 

it is the prerogative of the brave. "

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"Perhaps the feelings that we experience 

when we are in love 

represent a normal state. 

Being in love shows a person who he should be." 

Anton Chekhov

"It's a damn poor mind 

that can only think of one way 

to spell a word."  

— Andrew Jackson

"Where there is mystery, 

it is generally suspected there must also be evil. "

— Lord Byron

"Many people take no care of their money

 till they come nearly to the end of it, 

and others do just the same with their time. " 

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right 

even though I think it is hopeless."  

Chester W. Nimitz

"One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. 

One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life." 

Chinese Proverb

"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

"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

We are made strong by the difficulties we face, 

not by those we evade.  

unknown

"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 singsaway 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