“Stay away from ferris wheels.”
“A laughing, jolly man plots your demise.”
“If at first you don’t succeed, find out why.”
“Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.”
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds” – Albert Einstein
My professor at University once said, “If it’s a choice between conspiracy and stupidity 9 times out of 10 it’s stupidity.”
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The very greatest is the alphabet, for in it lies the deepest wisdom; yet only he can fathom it, who truly knows how to put it together.” -Emmanuel Geibel
“If you don’t know 6 ways to abuse a tool, you don’t know how to use it.”
“No job is too big, no fee is too big.”
That’s why I think there are two types of people in this world – people who can start things, and people who can finish things. And while I place great value on the finishers, its the starters who are rare because they can envision what isn’t there. -Ed Frank
“we love, because He first loved us.” 1 John 4:19
“Be the change that you want to see in the world.” Gandhi
every invention creates it’s own accident
–Paul Virilio
“I have discovered the truth and can’t understand why everybody isn’t eager to hear it…”
“You are definitely on my list… But I’ve forgotten what it’s a list of…”
80 “Don’t ever ask me to choose between you and happiness because I’d choose you every time…”
82 “Why isn’t there a cheap and easy why I can prove how much you mean to me…?”
87 “Now that you mention it, I do remember loving you…”
92 “In an orderly world, there is always a place for the disorderly…”
96 “I live in my own little world, but visitors are always welcome…”
97 “What I want is all the power and none of the responsibility…”
106 “It may not be worthwhile, but it still has to be done…”
134 “Where will it all end? Probably somewhere near where it all began…”
136 “I feel disillusioned. Do you have any good new illusions…?”
139 “Either this life I’m in is very dream-like or this dream I’m in is very life-like…”
172 “Help me improve my appearance… I’m much better looking when I’ve been hugged…”
177 “By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task overwhelm me…”
178 “My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating…”
182 “Some books make me want to go adventuring, others that they have saved me the trouble…”
185 “You can never discard too many bad ideas…”
2. Make yourself at home! Clean my kitchen.
13. Therapy is expensive, popping’ bubble wrap is cheap! You choose.
16. I like cats, too. Let’s exchange recipes.
29. See no evil, hear no evil, date no evil.
Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.
Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein
How did it get so late so soon?
It’s night before it’s afternoon.
December is here before it’s June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
~Dr. Seuss
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. ~John Lennon
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book
Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ~Eustache Deschamps
Don’t let anyone steal your dream. It’s your dream, not theirs. ~Dan Zadra
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts
If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me. ~Author Unknown
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~George MacDonald
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. ~Anäis Nin
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
Don’t worry if you hear crazy voices in your head. Worry when they stop sounding crazy.- me
If toast always lands butter side down, and cats always land on their feet, what would happen if you strapped toast
on the back of a cat and dropped it?
I’m not suppose to love you, I’m not suppose to care, I’m not suppose to live my life, wishing you were there,
I’m not suppose to wonder, where you are or what you do, but I can’t help it because I’m still in love with you.
“Never fear shadows; they simply mean there is a light shining somewhere nearby.”
Alternative Lifestyle for the Quietly Desperate
O, let us prance
through each day
as if it mattered,
heads flung
back, toes pointed,
shaking
love sparks
from our fingertips
in time to celestial
tambourines,
whirling finally into that last
glorious pirouette
that spins
straight
into
eternity.
~ Ann Applegarth
Captive
Make me captive, Lord,
And then I shall be free;
Force me to render up my sword,
And I shall conqueror be.
I sink in life’s alarms
When by myself I stand;
Imprison me within Thine arms,
And strong shall be my hand.
~ George Matheson
Holy Sonnet 10
Death, be no proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me;
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul’s delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with posion, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well,
And better than thy stroke; why swell’st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more, Death thou shalt die.
~ John Donne
Holy Sonnet 14
Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend
Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurped town, to another due,
Labor to admit you, but oh, to no end,
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captived, and proves weak or untrue,
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betrothed unto your enemy.
Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, shall never be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
~ John Donne
One
I am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
What I can do, I should do and,
With the help of God, I will do!
~ Everett Hale
Only A Dad
Only a dad with a tired face,
Coming home from the daily race,
Brining little of gold or fame
To show how well he has played the game;
But glad in his heart that his own rejoice
To see him come and to hear his voice.
Only a dad with a brood of four,
One of ten million men or more
Plodding along in the daily strife,
Bearing the whips and the scorns of life,
With never a whimper of pain or hate,
For the sake of those who at home await.
Only a dad, neither rich nor proud,
Merely one of the surging crowd,
Toiling, striving from day to day,
Facing whatever may come his way,
Silent whenever the harsh condemn,
And bearing it all for the love of them.
Only a dad but he gives his all,
To smooth the way for his children small,
Doing with courage stern and grim
The deeds that his father did for him.
This is the line that for him I pen:
Only a dad, but the best of men.
~ Edgar Guest
The Junk Box
My father often used to say:
“My boy don’t throw a thing away:
You’ll find a use for it some day.”
So in a box he stored up things,
Bent nails, old washers, pipes and rings,
And bolts and nuts and rusty springs.
Despite each blemish and each flaw;
Some use for everything he saw;
With things material, this was law.
And often when he’d work to do,
He searched the junk box through and through
And found old stuff as good as new.
And I have often thought since then,
That father did the same with men;
He knew he’d need their help again
It seems to me he understood
That men, as well as iron and wood,
May broken be and still be good.
Despite the vices he’d display
He never threw a man away,
But kept him for another day.
A human junk box is this earth
And into it we’re tossed at birth,
To wait the day we’ll be of worth.
Though bent and twisted, weak of will,
And full of flaws and lacking skill,
Some service each can render still.
~ Edgar Guest
There Is Always A Place For You
There is always a place for you at my table,
You never need to be invited.
I’ll share every crust as long as I’m able,
And know you will be delighted.
There is always a place for you by my fire,
And though it may burn to embers,
If warmth and good cheer are your desire
The friend of your heart remembers!
There is always a place for you by my side,
And should the years tear us apart,
I will face lonely moments more satisfied
With a place for you in my heart!
~ Anne Campbell
One of the greatest hindrances to internal peace which the Christian encounters in the common habit of dividing our lives into two areas – the sacred and the secular. ~ A.W. Tozer
It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything. Let a man sanctify the Lord God in his heart and he can thereafter do no common act. All he does is good and acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For such a man, living itself will be a priestly ministration. As he performs his never-so-simple task, he will hear the voice of the serephim saying, “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory.” (Isaiah 6:3) ~ A.W. Tozer
Those who know will look to the clouds. ~ Aaron M. Roberts
There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus Christ does not cry out, “This is mine! This belongs to me!” ~ Abraham Kuyper
Ponder anew what the Almighty can do. ~ Adwoa D. Agyepong
If your mind goes blank, don’t forget to turn off the sound. ~ Albert Einstein
Love will die if held to tightly, love will fly if held to lightly. ~ Anonymous
Some hearts are more fragile than others, purer somehow, like a crystal in a world of glass. Even the way they shatter is beautiful. ~ Anonymous
Spending a day with an old friend is like hearing an old song and remembering all of the words. ~ Anonymous
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. ~ Clive Staples Lewis
We are all statues and there is a rumor going around that someday, some of us are coming to life. ~ Clive Staples Lewis
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Life is a choice between following God and falling from Him. ~ Helen Liu
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. ~ Jim Elliot
Let us rise and resolve, at whatever cost of self-denial, that live or die, we shall live or die for the evangelization of the world in our day. ~ John Mott
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. ~ John Piper
The only thing in life is surrender to God. ~ Joni Carlson
Everything is okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end ~ Kimberly Pope
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, with the body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming “WOO HOO what a ride!” ~ Kristelle Ing
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
Or dream of dreaming of a God who says, “If you walk straight, straight around the world, you will come home.” ~ Michael Liaw
I have also determined that I will live for the beliefs for which I am willing to die! ~ Neal Pirolo
I wouldn’t give a fig for simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for simplicity on the other side of complexity. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde
The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous going on. ~ Oswald Chambers
The older you get, the more it takes to fill your heart with wonder, and only God is big enough to do that. ~ Ravi Zacharias
It is not merely that Jesus has the answers to life’s questions as much as He is the answer. ~ Ravi Zacharias
The beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair. ~ Relient K
If I stand let me stand on the promise that You will pull me through and if I fall let me fall on the grace that first brought me to You. If I sing may it be for the joy that is more than merely song and if I weep let it be as one who is longing for a home. ~ Rich Mullins
All science has its beginning in wonder. ~ S. Kierkegaard
God in Heaven, let me really feel my nothingness, not in order to despair over it, but in order to feel the more powerfully the greatness of Thy goodness. ~ S. Kierkegaard
You called, you cried, as you shattered my deafness. You sparkled, you blazed, you drove away my blindness. You shed your fragrance, and I drew my breath, and I panted for you. I tasted and now I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and now I burn with longing for your peace. ~ Saint Augustine
You ascended from before our eyes, and we turned back grieving, only to find you in our hearts. ~ Saint Augustine
In essential, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity. ~ Saint Augustine
A man is himself plus the book he reads. ~ Samuel Rarks C.
Disturb us, Lord, when we are to well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little, when we arrive safely because we have sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, Lord to dare more boldly to venture on wider seas where storms will show your mastery; where losing sight of land we shall find stars. we ask you to push back the horizons of our hopes; and you to push in the future in strength, courage, hope, and love. ~ Sir Francis Drake
I dream for a living. ~ Steven Spielberg
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense. ~ Tom Clancy
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. ~ Victor Hugo
Too many times we stand aside, and let the waters slip away, till what we putt off till tomorrow, has now become today, so don’t you sit upon the shoreline, and say you are satisfied, choose to chance the rapids, and dare to dance the tide. ~ Victoria Shaw
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. ~ Walt Disney
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ~ Walter Bagehot
Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. ~ William Penn
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. ~ Winston Churchill
I believe in the sun when it is not shining. I believe in love even when I feel it not. I believe in God even when He is silent. ~ Written on a wall in a concentration camp
For I know their works and their thoughts; the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory. ~ Isaiah 66:18
My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from Him. ~ Psalms 62:1
When my anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your consolations delight my soul. ~ Psalms 94:19
Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. ~ Proverbs 4:23
For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again, but the wicked stumble in time of calamity. ~ Proverbs 24:16
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. ~ John 1:14
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. ~ Romans 8:38-39
Therefore I urge you, bretheren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual act of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. ~ Romans 12:1-2
And thus I aspired to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named, so that I would not build on another man’s foundation; but as it is written, “They who had no news of Him shall see, And they who have not heard shall understand” ~ Romans 15:20-21
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. ~ 1 Corinthians 10:31
But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him. ~ 2 Corinthians 2:14
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations for ever and ever! Amen. ~ Ephesians 3:20-21
But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ ~ Philippians 3:7-8
Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. ~ Colossians 3:13
