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| * "Those who in everything make God first and last and best are the happiest people in the world." -EGW * "If you will find the voice and time to pray, God will find time and voice to answer." -EGW * "One plus God is a majority!" -Perry Been * "You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions." -James 4:3, RSV * "People who do a lot of kneeling don't do much lying." * "Some people have said, "But I don't feel that God is near." Let me ask you a question: "Does a fish feel wet?" We are immersed in God." -Susan Doenim * "We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other." -Luciano De Crescenzo. * "Anyone can be angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way--that is not easy." -Aristotle. * "Men hate those to whom they have to lie." -Victor Hugo. * "Sometimes I would like to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice when He could do something about it." "Well, why don't you ask Him?" "Because I'm afraid God might ask me the same question." -Ann Landers. |
| * "GOSSIP is sharing private information with those who are not part of the problem or part of the solution." * " A friend is someone who tells me not what I want to hear, but what I need to hear." -S. Doenim * "He (or she) is your friend who pushes you nearer to God." * "The only certain happines in life is to live for others." -Leo Tolstoy * "A friend is a person who listen attentively while you say nothing." * "I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own." -Bernard Malamud * "When I'm with good friend, I like myself more." * "I don't say anything to God. I just sit and look at Him and let Him look at me." -Old Peasant of Ars * "I place myself in the presence of God and I say to Him, "Lord, here I am; give me whatever You wish." Then I begin to tell Him of all that concerns me, my joys, my thoughts, my distress, and finally, I listen to Him." -Catherine Laboure * "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." * The 2 most important words: "Thank you." The most important word: "We ..." The least important word: "I ..." * "Treat everybody alike, no matter what station in life he comes. ...really great men and women are those who are natural, frank, and honest with everyone with whom they come into contact." * "Blessed is the man who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night." -Phil Marquart. * "Good nature begets smiles, smiles begets friends, and friends are better than fortune." * "Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat." * "Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it." * "I don't know the secret to success for sure, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." -Bill Cosby * "One of life's great rules is this: The more you give, the more you get." -William H. Danforth * "The relations between God and each soul are as distinct and full as though there were not another soul upon the earth to share His watchcare." SC 100 (E.G. White). -- thanks Autumn F.! * "Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another has it for thirty days--but it is the man that has it for thirty years who make a success in life." * "You can accomplish more in one hour with God than one lifetime without Him." (EGW). |
| These are some of my favorite thought-provoking quotes from various sources that I have collected since 1996. You are welcome to cite them (to your site, etc.) as long as you put my site as a reference/work cited (appreciate my work, please :) |
| * "Love is not blind--it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less." -R.J. Gordon. * "When you find your work hard, when you complain of difficulties and trials, when you say that you have no strength to withstand temptation, that you cannot overcome impatience, and that the Christian life is uphill work, be sure that you are not bearing the yoke of Christ; you are bearing the yoke of another master." -EG White CG 267 * "Triumph is just "umph" added to try." * "Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young." -Ladies' Home Journal * "If you cannot sleep at night, don't count sheep--talk to the Shepherd." * "Prayer is not intended to work any change in God; it brings us into harmony with God." -EGW * "Deep down in me I knew it was a lie, and He knew it. You can't pray a lie--I found that out." -Huckleberry Finn. * "Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necesarry in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him." -EGW * "Only truth can make us feel secure. Only truth can bring us the necesarry for long-lasting relationships. Only truth, painful though it may sometimes be, can create a safe environment of unity and growth." -Leo Buscaglia. * "Character is what you are in the dark." -Dwight Moody * "Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things; but just look at what they can do when they stick together--that's what friendship brings." -VM Kelly |
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| It is not the bad things that happen to us that doom us; it is the good people who happen to us at any age that facilitate enjoyable old age. Healing relationships are facilitated by a capacity for gratitude, for forgiveness, and for taking people inside. (By this metaphor I mean becoming eternally enriched by loving a particular person.) A good marriage at age 50 predicted positive aging at 80. But surprisingly, low cholesterol levels at age 50 did not. Alcohol abuse � unrelated to unhappy childhood � consistently predicted unsuccessful aging, in part because alcoholism damaged future social supports. Learning to play and create after retirement and learning to gain younger friends as we lose older ones add more to life�s enjoyment than retirement income. Objective good physical health was less important to successful aging than subjective good health. By this I mean that it is all right to be ill as long as you do not feel sick. |