What's your story?

Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office. - Julia Roberts

ACT!

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. - Thomas Jefferson

Their unity in love

The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the Trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because He is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity. - Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Time to get up

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. - Benjamin Franklin

Worthy of leadership

The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not go down in disgust, discouragement or defeat - that is the final proof of power. - William J. H. Boetcker

Rain, rain go away

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Our vocation

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. - Mother Teresa

Your best and more

Be who you are and be that well. - Saint Francis de Sales



BONUS QUOTES:
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. - Saint Francis de Sales


We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work. - Saint Francis de Sales

With a smile

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. - Mother Teresa

Scribbling on walls

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. - C. S. Lewis

Bonus quote as we look toward the election

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. - H. L. Mencken

Missed quotes of the last couple of days since I was too busy. . . 
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. - Thomas A. Edison

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. - Victor Hugo

Sweet clarity

Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity. ― Novala Takemoto, Missin' (Novel)

No rush

I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Cozy couples lazily meandered the streets and children trudged sleds and chased snowballs. No one seemed to be in a rush to experience anything other than the glory of the day, with each other, whenever and however it happened. ― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Providential thoughts

The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence. - Jeremiah day

I think about the patience required to trust in God's providence, too often haste causes me to presume the wrong reason for it. Given time, the meaning will be revealed.

Yesterday's neglected quote
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. - Steven Wright

Does anything happen?

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen? - Steven Wright

Know for the first time

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. - T. S. Eliot

Two from Hugo

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. - Victor Hugo

Yesterday's Forgotten Quote

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. - Victor Hugo

Plotting to make me happy

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J. D. Salinger

Dust & Marble

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. - Benjamin Franklin

Explore - Dream - Discover

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

3 blessings for the day

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back.  May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields.  And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand.  ~ Irish Blessing


May you always have walls for the winds,
a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire,
laughter to cheer you, those you love near you,
and all your heart might desire. ~Irish Blessing


May you always have work for your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you. ~Irish Blessing

Bewilderment & exhilaration

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration. - Kahlil Gibran

Slipping on by

Time just gets away from us. Mattie Ross- True Grit

We are but subjects

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone. - William Shakespeare

Really Clear

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. - Steve Jobs

The right stuff

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin

One day at a time

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. - Abraham Lincoln

Into the New Year

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. – G. K. Chesterton