Us Quotes (page 233)

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• soul
• castle
• seasoned

O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all. Arthur Rimbaud

• best
• play
• hand

It’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we’ve been dealt, and accessorize what we’ve got. Candace Bushnell

• god
• gods
• invisible

Christ is the sacrament of the invisible God - a sacrament that indicates presence. God is with us. Pope John Paul II

• diamond
• morning
• sober

If I should see your eyes again, I know how far their look would go -- Back to a morning in the park With sapphire shadows on the snow. Or back to oak trees in the spring When you unloosed my hair and kissed The head that lay against your knees In the leaf shadow's amethyst. And still another shining place We would remember -- how the dun Wild mountain held us on its crest One diamond morning white with sun. But I will turn my eyes from you As women turn to put away The jewels they have worn... Sara Teasdale

• may
• giving
• drinking

We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance. George Bernard Shaw

• god
• work
• dependability

Pray as if it all depends upon God, for it does. But work as if it all depends upon us, for it does. George W. Bush

• eyes
• praises
• closeness

When people praise us, we should always keep a close eye on how we behave Paulo Coelho

• soul
• love
• dance

Let there be spaces in our togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between us. love one another but make not a bond of love.. let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of our souls.. Khalil Gibran

• saying
• eighteen
• truth

A normally constituted truth lives, let us say, as a rule seventeen or eighteen, or at most twenty years—seldom longer. Henrik Ibsen

• happy
• help
• sympathy

One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy. Louisa May Alcott

• wisdom
• children
• childhood

Wisdom leads us back to childhood. Except ye become as little children. Blaise Pascal

• excellence
• sometimes
• cold

Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee. Jonathan Carroll

• wonder
• pain
• life

Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? … The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. Leo Rosten

• fall
• wellness
• fullness

I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well. J. R. R. Tolkien

• forgiveness
• intelligent
• time

We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there a virtue more in need of application in our time than the virtue of forgiving and forgetting? There are those who would look upon this as a sign of weakness. Is it? I submit that it takes neither strength nor intelligence to brood in anger over wrongs suffered, to go through life with a spirit of vindictiveness, to dissipate one’s abilities in planning retribution. There is no... Gordon B. Hinckley