Don't pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger people. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.
Guests and fish start to stink after two days.
I have all the money I'll ever need - if I die by 4 today.
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Give a man a fish and he won't starve for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he won't starve for his entire life.
I thank you God that I can be a father. I cherish the hug from my son or daughter. I pray my Dear Father that in some small way You will feel my love as I hug you today.
Choose a job you like and you will never have to work a day of your life.
Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day, but you wouldn't go scheduling your day by it would you? Then by the same token don't put too much faith in science.
Every day there's sad news and bad news, but each day itself is glad news.
A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
A diplomatic husband said to his wife, "How do you expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any older?".
If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day.
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of the day, and at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, Th' extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.
Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.
His right and left brain are talking to each other more these days. The one is an atheist Marxist and the other is a Christian socialist.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.