WiSe WoRdS from old books

Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! ~Allison Gappa Bottke

A day is Eternity's seed, and we are its Gardeners. ~Erika Harris

Decorate yourself from the inside out. ~Terri Guillemets

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. ~Frank Tyger

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~Elbert Hubbard

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. ~Hippocrates

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes


P.S. This post is dedicated to Raheleh - my devoted friend. Raheleh lives in Mashhad and has majored in TEFL. She is a very kind and helpful friend.

brother quotes

I have a brother whose name is Alireza. He is helpful, intelligent, and goal-directed. He is a real friend of mine as well. This new post is just for him.

Alireza -- thanks for being a good brother and devoted pal for me.

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero. ~Marc Brown

A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams. ~Author Unknown

A brother is a friend given by Nature. ~Jean Baptiste Legouve

Never make a companion equal to a brother. ~Hesiod

AMBITION

Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great. ~ Mark Twain

book quotes

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. ~E.P. Whipple

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. ~Jeremy Collier

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life." ~Helen Exley

From my point of view, a book is a literary prescription put up for the benefit of someone who needs it. ~S.M. Crothers

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ~Henry Ward Beecher

God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. ~W.E. Channing

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome. ~William Ewart Gladstone

5 be yourself quotes

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. ~David Carradine

There is just one life for each of us: our own. ~Euripides

You were born an original. Don't die a copy. ~John Mason

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ~Kurt Vonnegut

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. ~André Berthiaume, Contretemps

*~*ON GOD*~*

~*~When you love you should not say: 'God is in my heart, 'but rather,' I am in the heart of God.'

~*~The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man.

~*~Our God in His gracious thirst will drink us all, the dewdrop and the tear.

~*~Comfort you, my beloved weak ones, for there is a great Power behind and beyond this world of Matter, a Power that is all Justice, Mercy, Pity and Love.

~*~God does not work evil. He gives us Reason and Learning so that we may ever be on our guard against the pitfalls of Error and Destruction.

"Gibran Kahlil Gibran"

Summertime Quotes

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~Henry James

Do what we can, summer will have its flies. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. ~John Lubbock

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ~Anton Chekhov

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ~Sam Keen

In summer, the song sings itself. ~William Carlos Williams

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. ~Celia Thaxter

The summer night is like a perfection of thought. ~Wallace Stevens