Verses of the heart!

Forgiveness is...

2011-04-21T18:40:00.000-07:00

It takes a strong person to say sorry, and an ever stronger person to forgive. - Unknown

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Gandhi

"You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well."-Lewis B. Smedes

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." - Philip Yancey

"The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves."-Allen C. Guelzo

"He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven."-Lance Morrow

Health is...

2009-08-08T21:23:00.000-07:00

Richard Baker:
To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.

Henry Ward Beecher:
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Denis Waitley:
Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

Josh Billings:
There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy it.

Anthony Robbins:
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

Leigh Hunt:
The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Smile is..

2009-07-25T20:23:00.000-07:00

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.
~Lee Mildon

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
~Phyllis Diller

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
~Jim Beggs

A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.
~Charles Gordy

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
~George Eliot

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~Mother Teresa

Dignity is...

2009-07-05T04:22:00.000-07:00

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

Philip Massinger

Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down.

Madagasy Proverb

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

George Santayana

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Booker T. Washington

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

John Brown

Simplicity is...

2009-06-20T04:43:00.000-07:00

Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter. ~D.H. Mondfleur

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. ~Albert Einstein

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~Confucius

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things. ~Elise Boulding

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple. ~Doris Janzen Longacre

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. ~Lin Yutang

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them. ~Sherwood Anderson

Freedom is...

2009-06-11T20:25:00.000-07:00

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
~Thomas Campbell

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~Abraham Lincoln

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
~Robert Frost

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
~Thomas Paine

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
~Moshe Dayan

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
~Charles Kingsley

Freedom means choosing your burden.
~Hephzibah Menuhin

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.
~Author Unknown

Peace is....

2009-06-04T03:52:00.000-07:00

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force. David Borenstein.

Courage is...

2009-06-03T05:05:00.000-07:00

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."Ambrose Redmoon

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."Winston Churchill

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."Plato

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."Eleanor Roosevelt

"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."Alfred North Whitehead

"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."Maya Angelou

Friend is....

2009-06-01T04:57:00.000-07:00

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.
-- Cindy Lew

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.
-- Jewish Saying

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
-- Elbert Hubbard

"Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure."
-- Jewish saying

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
-- Aristotle

Life is....

2009-06-01T04:13:00.000-07:00

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

-Abharam Lincoln

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True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

-Albert Eienstein

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Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
-Amelia Burr

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill

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Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

- Gandhi

2009-05-29T04:15:00.001-07:00

LOVE IS.....

2009-05-29T03:47:00.000-07:00

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
-Carl Jung

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
-Bertrand Russell

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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
-James Baldwin

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True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds -- a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.
-Jim Bishop

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"Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life."
-Smiley Blanton
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