Saturday, March 8, 2008

Quotes

"Virtue is very beautiful and very attractive"~~Victoria

"True friendship is a powerful force for
strength and encouragement"~~Victoria, Notes From My Heart

'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone.~~Thomas Moore (1717-1852)

"Delay from Christ is not denial"

"The bluebird carries the sky on his back"~~Henry David Thoreau

"Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded
on the principle, and cemented by time".~~unknown

"It ever has been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood~~no more ~ to man. And love to women is life or death"~~Ella W. Wilcox, 1850-1919

"Trials equip us and make us usable for the sake of others"

"We are not responsbile for other people's responses"

"When we walk in the will of God, we are protected"

"Nobody ever loved anybody like everybody wants
to be loved"~~Mignon McLaughlin

"I am part of all that I have met"~~Tennyson

"Respect is love in plain cloths"

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us~~Joseph Cambell ( I don't know if this man is or was saved-----but its the truth if you are looking to Jesus to fill your life.)

"We are tangled up in others and have forgotten what our heart once knew"~~Kabir

"Letting Go" Journal of Victoria "A release, a personal New Year's Day. Freedom--
has its seeds in summer."~~Victoria

"It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being nestled in bed and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep"----Leigh Hunt

"It is astonishing how short a time it takes
for very wonderful things to happen"---Frances Hodgson Burnett

"Among flowers, we live graciously again"---Susan Kinsolving, "Among Flowers"

"We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves"---Joseph Epstein

"When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness"---Vincent Starrett

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me
there lay an invincible summer"---Albert Camus

"What is a friend, a single soul dwelling in two bodies"--Aristotle

"There are friends of the road and friends of the heart---you are in my heart"

"For memory has painted this perfect day/with colors that never fade/and we find at the end of a perfect day, the Soul of a friend we've made"---Carrie Jacobs Bond

"Fine manners are not to be kept for stangers"---Victorian Etiquette Book

"The value of a man is the sum of his commitments, Martin Buber onc said "I am what I do" Men who are loving make their women bloom" ---Martin Buber

"For those who have loved me, but especially for those
who have let me love them"--Merle Shain I love this author about men and women in love. V

"Only Passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things"---Dennis Diderot

"Fear is a form of slavery"

"As long as your worried what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself and be truly be free"
-------Victoria B ( Did I really write this? It's in my journal of the 90's).

"Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different" Fear has no more power than we give it----Victoria's Journal

"All choices have consequences. We are responsible for our choice"--Deuteronomy 30:19

"It's not the moments in our life that we breathe, but the moments that take our breath away that's important." author unknown but my dad loves this and so do I.

"Never take a sleeping pill and a laxative in the same night"....my dad is a funny man.....another quote he found. He finds some really great jokes......laugh and live longer or have fun. The bible tells us Laughter is like a medicine.






"Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart"~~Coco Chanel

"Hope is the essential ingredient to make it through life.
It is the anchor of the soul"~~Barbara Johnson

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something
but to be someone"~~Coco Chanel

"Few , save the poor, feel for the poor"~~Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I am so thankful to God that he gave me a heart for the poor. I could never look down on the poor and I will help those before anyone else.~~Victoria

"A man who honors God privately, will show it by making good decisions publicly."~~Ed Cole

"A man's affections follows his money"~~Ed Cole

"A man's word is the expression of his nature"~~Ed Cole

"A palace does not make a king"~~Ed Cole

"A person's beliefs hold the greatest potential for good or harm in life"~~Ed Cole

"A river is always purest at its source and least pure at its mouth"~~Ed Cole

"A sin mentally results in poor self image"~~Ed Cole

"Above the clouds, the sun always shines"~~Ed Cole

"Ability to resist temptation is directly proportionate to your submission to God"~~Ed Cole

"The fault finder will find fault even in paradise"~~~Henry David Thoreau

"I realize that a sense of humor isn't for everyone~it's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive"~~Anne Schaef

*Think you can, think you can't; either way you'll be right"~~Henry Ford

"Hitch your wagon to a star"~~Ralph W. Emmerson

"Attitudes are contagious. Do you want people around you to catch yours?"~~Bob Moawad

"You may live longer than I do, but I will live more"~~James McConnell

"Never take hope away from any human being"~~Oliver Wendell Homes, Sr.

"Write on your heart that everyday is the best day of the year"~~Ralph Waldo Emmerson

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer"~~Henry David Thoreau

"Christians are not patched sinners, they are new creations"~~Edwin Louis Cole

"You don't drown by falling in the water, you drown by staying there"~~Edwin Louis Cole

"Let the rain kiss you.....
with silver liquid drops. Let
the rain sing you a lullaby"
~~~Langston Hughes

"I love Spring anywhere, but if I could
choose, I would always greet it in a garden"
~~~Ruth Stout

"Earth laughs in flowers"~~Ralph Waldo Emmerson

"Scatter your flowers as you go~for you will not pass this way again"

"Pearls, the gem which dims the moon"~~~Ralph Waldo Emmerson

"I woke this morning with this extraordinary fragrance around me,
and it was the ROSE"

"Pink is a color just born"

"Writing ......is but a different name for conversation~~Lawrence Sterve

"Friendship is love without wings"~~Lord Baron

"Love, the essence of God"~~~Ralph Waldo Emmerson

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is invisible to the
eye"~~~Antoine De Saint-Exupery

"Lace, designed for the grand ceremonies of life"

"There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will
catch your heart"~~~Ben Crenshaw

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