Favorite Quotes
Here are some of my favorite quotes and sayings and poems for you to use.
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. Pearl S. Buck
I was never made just for the flat lands or small hills. I was made for the mountains. My prayer is to have the stamina, the courage, the creativity to do what it takes to find the mountains and to climb them.
It is in the silence that God speaks to us.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. Henry David Thoreau
The highest pinnacle of the spiritual life is not joy in unbroken sunshine, but absolute and undoubting trust in the love of God.
Grace means freedom. It makes up for every weakness of our human nature.
You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. Go work with it.
Sincere regret needs to stand alone. It should not be followed with But. ~Marriage Matters
Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through, and be silent. ~Rumi
Silence leads to prayer. Prayer leads to faith. Faith leads to love. Love leads to service. Service leads to peace. ~Mother Teresa
"It is easy to find the truth; it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it." ~Fulton Sheen
Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen
Love is both a mother's work and a mother's reward.
When we act with purity of heart, nothing becomes impossible to us.
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
Jane Austen
Smile at each person you meet today. You may never know how much you have brightened a life.
"Live simply so that others may simply live." Mother Teresa
Demons run when a good man goes to war.
Dr. Who
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. ~Charles Baudelaire
"Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left." ~Fulton Sheen
The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.
Joy is simply not possible without meaning.
You are a chosen child of God. You are blessed. Your life is very important. You are always loved. You are chosen.
Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails... 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8
Embrace everyone and everything that helps you become a better version of yourself and you will live a life uncommon.
I have lived through war, and lost much. I know what's worth the fight, and what is not.
Honor and courage are matters of the bone, and what a man will kill for, he will sometimes die for, too. ~Diana Gabaldon
"Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being. Do it for the Lord rather than for men." Colossians 3:22
Two butterflies went out at noon
And waltzed above a stream,
Then stepped straight through the firmament
And rested on a beam;
And then together bore away
Upon a shining sea,-
Though never yet, in any port,
Their coming mentioned be.
If spoken by the distant bird,
If met in ether sea
By frigate or by merchantman,
Report was not to me. ~Emily Dickinson
Just know you're not alone cause I'm going to make this place your home. ~Phillip Phillips (Home)
"To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious." ~Samuel Butler
"All large tasks are completed in a series of starts." ~Niel Fiore
"If you are what you should be you will set the world ablaze." ~Catherine of Siena
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." ~Pablo Picasso
"All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere." ~Maurice Denis
"All painting is an accident,
But it's also not an accident,
because one must select what part of the accident one
chooses to preserve." ~Francis Bacon
"An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself." ~Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks, and invents." ~Ludwig Van Beethoven
Take responsibility for the choices that you make today.
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." ~Henry Ward Beecher
See the world through the eyes of your inner child.
Therefore do not be anxious for tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:34
"Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the
difference." ~Robert Frost
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. ~Oprah Winfrey
I was never made just for the flat lands or small hills. I was made for the mountains. My prayer is to have the stamina, the courage, the creativity to do what it takes to find the mountains and to climb them.
It is in the silence that God speaks to us.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. Henry David Thoreau
The highest pinnacle of the spiritual life is not joy in unbroken sunshine, but absolute and undoubting trust in the love of God.
Grace means freedom. It makes up for every weakness of our human nature.
You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. Go work with it.
Sincere regret needs to stand alone. It should not be followed with But. ~Marriage Matters
Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through, and be silent. ~Rumi
Silence leads to prayer. Prayer leads to faith. Faith leads to love. Love leads to service. Service leads to peace. ~Mother Teresa
"It is easy to find the truth; it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it." ~Fulton Sheen
Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen
Love is both a mother's work and a mother's reward.
When we act with purity of heart, nothing becomes impossible to us.
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
Jane Austen
Smile at each person you meet today. You may never know how much you have brightened a life.
"Live simply so that others may simply live." Mother Teresa
Demons run when a good man goes to war.
Dr. Who
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. ~Charles Baudelaire
"Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left." ~Fulton Sheen
The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.
Joy is simply not possible without meaning.
You are a chosen child of God. You are blessed. Your life is very important. You are always loved. You are chosen.
Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails... 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8
Embrace everyone and everything that helps you become a better version of yourself and you will live a life uncommon.
I have lived through war, and lost much. I know what's worth the fight, and what is not.
Honor and courage are matters of the bone, and what a man will kill for, he will sometimes die for, too. ~Diana Gabaldon
"Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being. Do it for the Lord rather than for men." Colossians 3:22
Two butterflies went out at noon
And waltzed above a stream,
Then stepped straight through the firmament
And rested on a beam;
And then together bore away
Upon a shining sea,-
Though never yet, in any port,
Their coming mentioned be.
If spoken by the distant bird,
If met in ether sea
By frigate or by merchantman,
Report was not to me. ~Emily Dickinson
Just know you're not alone cause I'm going to make this place your home. ~Phillip Phillips (Home)
"To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious." ~Samuel Butler
"All large tasks are completed in a series of starts." ~Niel Fiore
"If you are what you should be you will set the world ablaze." ~Catherine of Siena
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." ~Pablo Picasso
"All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere." ~Maurice Denis
"All painting is an accident,
But it's also not an accident,
because one must select what part of the accident one
chooses to preserve." ~Francis Bacon
"An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself." ~Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks, and invents." ~Ludwig Van Beethoven
Take responsibility for the choices that you make today.
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." ~Henry Ward Beecher
See the world through the eyes of your inner child.
Therefore do not be anxious for tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:34
"Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the
difference." ~Robert Frost
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. ~Oprah Winfrey
