The greatest faith is born in the hour of despair. When we can see no hope and no way out, then faith rises and brings the victory.
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!
It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image of that.
Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.
[. . . ] He didn't want his wife to read historical romances because it might give her unrealistic expectations. [. . . ] If I had been him, I would have been reading your books every time you laid them down to see how I could improve my skills and please you. Second warning of the night. I bought a couple. " You bought a couple of what?" Historical romances. I'm three-quarters through the first one. " He flashed her a slow grin. "All I can say is, I like the way your mind works. " ~Jake Coulter and Molly Wells
How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!