As you grow older, more than ever you need to spend part of each day alone in peace, quiet, and meditation; and in prayer that you may be shown how to continue to live each day with courage, kindness, wisdom, laughter, interest and understanding. You should take time to absorb and enjoy the lovely world in which you live and come to know its inhabitants with affectionate amusement. You would do well to budge your time as follows: one-half in work, taking care of personal belongings, etc.; one-fourth in social pastimes with others, both young and old; and one-forth as an interested, pleased observer of life. -William B. Terhune
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By the time you know what you want to do, you have probably already done it. -WRF
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Whether there were organized orders of builders in the early times no one can tell, through there may have been. No matter; man mixed thought and worship with his work, and as he cut his altar stones and fitted them together he thought out a faith by which to live. -Joseph Fort Newton
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It is not what he has, or what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. -Henri Frederic Amiel
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Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. -Brother Mark Twain
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There are two freedoms, the false where one is free to do what he likes, and true where one is free to do what he ought. -Charles Kingsley
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In nothing do men more nearly approach God than in doing good to their fellow men. -Cicero
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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs, temptations, and stresses. Men and women who live through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration on those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say "This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task," then that live has been lived well and there are no regrets. -Eleanor Roosevelt
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Men have other wants as spiritual understanding, personal freedom, social recognition, intellectual development. Men are never truly happy if only their economic wants are satisfied. -Conrad Hahn
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. -Victor Hugo
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You see future time when you look at a calendar, you see present time when you look at a clock, you see past time when you look at pictures and you have all the time in the world when you look at the ones you love. -WRF
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The entire object of true education is to make people not merely to do the right things, but enjoy them; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learn, but to love purity; not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice. -John Ruskin
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The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out to your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout your coming when you return from your daily victory and defeat. -Robert Louis Stevenson
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Memory tempers prosperity, consoles adversity, cautions youth and delights old age. -Author Unknown
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When God wants a great work done in the world or a great wrong righted, he goes about it in a very unusual way. He doesn't stir up his earthquakes or send forth his thunderbolts. Instead, he has a helpless baby born, perhaps in a simple home and of some obscure mother. And then God puts the idea into the mother's heart, and she puts it into the baby's mind. And then God waits. The greatest force in the world are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts. The greatest forces in the world are babies. -E. T. Sullivan
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The farther a man knows himself to be from perfection, the nearer he is to it. -Gerald Groote
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Faith is an act of rational choice which determines us to act as if certain things were true and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true. -William R. Inge
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I cannot help believing that the world will be a better and a happier place when people are praised more and blamed less; when we utter in their hearing the good we think and also gently intimate the criticisms we hope may be of service. For the world grows smaller every day. It will be but a family circle after a while. -Francis E. Willard
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Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted on it in faith until I could prove its existence. -Arthur H. Compton
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Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. What is it? Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start liking them. Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what you have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words: "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them." -Norman Vincent Peale
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