Quotes Worth Remembering

Words that move me 

along with some art that also moves my spirit.

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, 

in magnitude at least,

 but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

~Hal Borland

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed

 that all nature seems renewed around me and with me.

 The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. 

The whole world is charged with the glory of God

 and I feel fire and music under my feet.

~Thomas Merton

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

~Theodore Roethke

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, 

stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - 

every form of animate or inanimate existence,

 leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

~Orison Swett Marden

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted

 is the most terrible poverty.

~Mother Teresa

Help us to recognize your voice, 

help us not to be allured by the madness of the world,

 so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.

~Albrecht Durer

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

 Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul

 be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

~Helen Keller

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

~Oscar Wilde

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes 

and softens down the temper; so cry away.

~Charles Dickens

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

~Erma Bombeck

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

~Charles M. Schulz

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

~Mother Teresa

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

~Helen Keller

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - 

this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

~Albert Einstein

Don't confuse fame with success.

 Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

~Erma Bombeck

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl

 is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

~Albert Einstein