January 2011

What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof. (Marge Piercy)

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. (Publilius Syrus)

If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape. (Anon)

Man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? (Robert Browning)

In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope. (Bernie S Siegel)

A man of courage never wants weapons. (Anon) 

February 2011 

Learn how to feel joy. (Seneca)

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement. (Horace Bushnell)

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're looking for the gold. (Maurice Setter)

There can be no courage unless you're scared. (Eddie Rickenbacker)

We can do no great things – only small things with great love. (Mother Teresa) 

Men do not fail, they just stop trying. (Elihu Root) 

March 2011

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. (Helen Keller)

Considering the fortune you might have lost, you'll have to admit you're rich already. (John Rothchild)

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. (Norman Cousins)

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. (Marianne Williamson)

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger. (Saint Basil)

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. (Joseph Joubert)

April 2011

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. (Marge Piercy) 

He who forecasts all perils will never sail the seas. (Anon) 

When we are not sure, we are alive. (Graham Greene) 

If a man would move the world, he must first move himself. (Socrates) 

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. (Angelique Arnauld) 

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. (Theodore Roosevelt) 

May 2011

When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep. (Anon)

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

He who limps still walks. (Stanislaw Lec)

Action is the antidote to despair. (Joan Baez)

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. (Abigail Van Buren)

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. (Oscar Wilde)

June 2011  

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict. (Anon) 

Going to church does not make you a Christian, any more than going to a garage makes you a car. (Laurence J Peter) 

The only man who can't change his mind is the man who hasn't got one. (Edward Noyes Westcott) 

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. (Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco) 

Yard by yard is hard, inch by inch is a cinch. (Anon) 

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work. (Bruce Atkinson)