Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free, And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.
I ask not a life for the dear ones, All radiant, as others have done, But that life may have just enough shadow To temper the glare of the sun; I would pray God to guard them from evil, But my prayer would bound back to myself: Ah! a seraph may pray for a sinner, But a sinner must pray for himself.
Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be, And do the best to climb, and get to him.
Like his that lights a candle to the sun.
Possunt quia posse videntur They can because they seem to be able to
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.
Out of the sea the sun aborning Not adorned but all adorning with his awesome light of morning says to you Come! My Mavoorning!
Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.
Any man who inflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness. [Lat., Nec audiendi sunt qui solent dicere vox populi, vox dei; cum tumultus vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.]
Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
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.
And, lo! in the dark east, expanded high, The rainbow brightens to the setting Sun.
Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!
Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord's hand, the object of His eye! When I behold thee, though my light be dim, Distinct, and low, I can in thine see Him Who looks upon thee from His glorious throne, And minds the covenant between all and One.
Did ever raven sing so like a lark That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise?
All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason: For why in man's matters is neither rime nor reason. [Lat., Omnia sunt risus, sunt pulvis, et omnia nil sunt: Res hominum cunctae, nam ratione lies.]
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. â¢Hermann Hesse Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. â¢Harriet Lerner Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. â¢Anthony J D'Angelo Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. â¢Richard M DeVos Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him. â¢Sidney Malwed Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. â¢Albert Schweitzer The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one. â¢Joan Baez For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship. â¢Warren Beatty The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smellsâand he smelled real nice. â¢Sandra Bullock My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons. â¢Lord Byron In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. â¢Angela Carter I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging. It wouldn't be right to make it look too easy. â¢Helen Hunt If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. â¢Octavio Paz The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. â¢Alexandria Penney It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting. â¢Todd Ruthman When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring. â¢Bob Seger If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times. â¢Montel Williams Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.