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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Be grateful for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

The strength of your life is measured by the strength of your will.

It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.

What do I owe my father? Everything!

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very quiet if only those birds sing there that sang best.

Like water spilt upon the ground
alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass!

O' who will walk with me along lifes merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, who dares to laugh out loud and free ...

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.

There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.

I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.

What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.

Spend as much time as possible, with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors.

Favorite People, Favorite Places,
Favorite Memories of the past ...
These are the joys of a lifetime
Those are the things that last

Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.

You can never begin to live until you dare to die.

Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm,
none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.

There is a loftier ambition than to stand high in the world. It is to step down and lift mankind a little higher.

Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow
Then draw it to the head and let it go!

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

Deeds not Words: I say so too! And yet I find it somehow true, A word may help a man in need, To nobler act and braver deed.

We are all swimmers in God's mighty sea.

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

A little while the rose, And after that the thorn; An hour of dewy morn, And then the glamour goes. Ah, love in beauty born, A little while the rose!

The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.

Love is the heart s immortal thirst to be completely known and all forgiven.

Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.

In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.

Oh It's home again, and homed again, America for me. I want a ship that's Westward bound, to plough the rolling sea.

For those who love ... time is eternity ...

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.

We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.

Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road ... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

He knew that all was well, because he had done the best that he could, from day to day. He had been true to the light that had been given to him

Death comes in its own time, in its own way.Death is as unique as the individual experiencing it.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Flowers rejoice when night is done, Lift their heads to greet the sun; Sweetest looks and odours raise, In a silent hymn of praise.

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

You may have to live in a crowd, but you do not have to live like it.

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.

I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.

It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst.

A peaceful man must fight For that which peace demands,- Freedom and faith, honor and right, Defend with heart and hands.

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.

What is Fortune, what is Fame?
Futile gold and phantom name-
Riches buried in a cave,
Glory written on a grave.

Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.

Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home sweet home
For there the heart can rest.

In warlike pomp, with banners flowing, The regiments of autumn stood: I saw their gold and scarlet glowing From every hillside, every wood.

The kingdom of birds is divided into two departments - birds and House Sparrows. House Sparrows are not real birds - they are little beasts!

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.

The proverb says that 'well begun is half done.' But the other half is harder and more necessary,-to get a thing well ended.

The first day of spring is one thing and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.

He that planteth a tree ... provideth a kindness for many generations.

Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made.