love and kindness quotes

When Jesus comes, the shadows depart. ~Author unknown, inscription on a Scottish castle



It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake



The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. ~Ellen Glasgow



I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. ~William Shakespeare



His clothes fit him so ill, and constrain him so much, that he seems rather their prisoner than their proprietor. ~Philip Dormer Stanhope



Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. ~Helen Rowland Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. ~Helen Rowland



A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. ~May Sarton



Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. ~Pierce Harris, Atlanta Journal



A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. ~Joseph Campbell



The true Indian sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, because to him all days are God's days. The first American mingled with his pride a singular humility. Spiritual arrogance was foreign to his nature and teaching. ~Ohiyesa of the Santee Sioux (Charles Alexander Eastman)



It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters. ~Roger L'Estrange, Aesop's Fables, 1692



May is a pious fraud of the almanac. ~James R. Lowell



The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. ~Buddha



I'm in favor of it as long as it's multiple choice. ~Kurt Rambis, on drug testing



We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy. ~William Osler



I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem. ~Jerry Falwell



Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ~Margaret Young



How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit. ~Proverbs 17:27



A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit