Saturday, July 22, 2017

Weekend Wisdom





The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benediction.

William Wordsworth

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.

William Wordsworth

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive

William Wordsworth
1770-1850, British Poet

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.

William Wordsworth
1770-1850, British Poet

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine.


Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine.

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine.

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.


Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.


A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.


Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.


God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers


A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.


Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.


In teaching others we teach ourselves.


Tell the truth and then run.



There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.


Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.


If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent.


It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.



I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

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