There are certainly moments, said Chad, when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true, he added, that seems to be all that need concern me.Joined July 2011
584 Followers 766 FollowingYou have to hang in there, because two or three years later, the gremlins will return your child, and he will be wonderful again.
596 Followers 581 FollowingTime goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.
587 Followers 591 FollowingMere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.
578 Followers 714 FollowingIt is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
616 Followers 498 FollowingHappiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
588 Followers 784 FollowingA passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
622 Followers 664 FollowingOne thing about my Aunt Nadie She was gruff on the outside, but if you ever needed something, like a spanking or a scolding, she'd give it to you.
582 Followers 713 FollowingThe lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind He stumbles through existence with his head-light on behind. - from The Lightning-Bug
600 Followers 568 FollowingStop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you'll find out when you need to -- find out both the questions and the answers.
605 Followers 803 FollowingIf the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.
620 Followers 768 FollowingEverybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. . . . Peace comes through hope.
573 Followers 670 FollowingSinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
616 Followers 762 FollowingThere is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
597 Followers 781 FollowingIf a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
613 Followers 501 FollowingYou see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.
597 Followers 779 FollowingFor a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so ... for Jack history was full of heroes.
592 Followers 827 FollowingAssociate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
579 Followers 736 FollowingAmong all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.