Than Quotes (page 197)

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• support
• evening
• end

You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not.? I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States.? Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not. John Adams

• love
• death
• evening

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death. C. S. Lewis

• sometimes
• rests
• wicked

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. Alexander Dumas

• little
• helpful
• god

None of us will become perfect in a day or a month or a year. We will not accomplish it in lifetime, but we can begin now, starting with our more obvious weaknesses and gradually converting them to strengths as we go forward with our lives. this quest may be a long one: in fact, it will be lifelong. It may be fraught with many mistakes, with falling down and getting back up again. And it will take much effort. But we must not sell ourselves short. We must make a little extra effort. We would... Gordon B. Hinckley

• selfish
• to live
• going away

We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if... Madeleine L'Engle

• wellness
• enough
• giving

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. Ernest Hemingway

• life
• may
• art

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more precious than the life force and may the love of that force guide you as you go. Patti Smith

• time
• dog
• die

It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs. Jim Harrison

• time
• joy
• common

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy. Emily Bronte

• men
• profound
• whole

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. G. H. Hardy

• saying
• insist
• take

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did. Alain de Botton

• self
• courage
• loyalty

Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage of the soul – by doing good for good’s sake – that is spirituality. – David O. McKay

• day
• sisyphus
• becoming

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. Simone de Beauvoir

• who
• else
• ceases

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth. Adrienne Rich

• thoughts
• inspirational
• mind

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. Benjamin Disraeli