Inspirational thoughts

We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us. – Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful of your life.” Mark Twain

“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked.” Mark Twain

 

 

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” Mark Twain

‘It’s better to be alone than in bad company.” – George Washington

“Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.”

• Saint Augustine

“Far better for you to say: I am a sinner than to say: I have no need of religion. The empty can be filled, but the self intoxicated have no room for God.”

-Ven. Fulton J. Sheen

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” — Harper Lee

“If one by one we counted people out, for the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long to get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.” Mark Twain

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” Jane Austen