Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.

Maurice Maeterlinck

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

Barry Lopez

You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

Barry Lopez

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.

Barry Lopez

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

David Korten

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

Dave Barry

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

Charles Stanley

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

Chester A. Arthur

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

Bethany Hamilton

It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but when we submit our lives to Christ, His grace, mercy, peace and love will bring true fulfillment to our lives.

Charles R. Swindoll

God declared me righteous!

Charles R. Swindoll

Grace is ours. Let's live it! Deny it or debate it and we kill it.

Charles R. Swindoll

GRACE: All you can do is take it.

Jason Grilli

To grace my father's number, pitch in a Tigers uniform and get my first win (as a Tiger) and have him in the stands, you can't script it any better than that.

Joseph Conrad

He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites--and escapes.

William Shakespeare

He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural

Byron Katie

If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now.

Carlos Santana

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.

Bertrand Russell

When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to know

Edward Gorey

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

Bertrand Russell

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

Anton Chekhov

There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune.

Baldwin Spencer

We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Let us resolve to be happy regardless of our circumstance.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Happiness doesn't come from external circumstances. It comes from the inside-regardless of what is happening around us.

Cameron Mackintosh

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

Chuck Pagano

Circumstances don't make you, they reveal you .