Measure of friendship

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
- Randy K. Milholland -

Kindness

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

- Ettiene De Grellet -

Do not judge men by mere appearances

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
- Edward Chapin -

What is Christmas?

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
- Dale Evans Rogers -

The warmth and joy of Christmas

From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas brings us closer to each other.
- Emily Matthews -

Why is it that our memory ....

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -

The most valuable result of all education....

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

- Thomas H. Huxley -

People of little understanding ...

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

- - Samuel Richardson -

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The problem with doing nothing

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

- Benjamin Franklin -

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We worry about what a child ...

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

- Stacia Tauscher -

As we express our gratitude

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

- John F. Kennedy -

Scientists

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

- Hans Eysenck -

Imagination..

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

- Joseph Addison -

A little sincerity

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
- Oscar Wilde -

The greatest discovery

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

- William James -

If you have made mistakes..

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

- Mary Pickford -

What is more annoying...

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

- Bertrand Russell -

The penalty for success

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
- Nancy Astor -

Great ability develops...

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

- Baltasar Gracian -

Envied...

It is better to be envied than pitied.

-Herodotus -

Nothing earthly will make me give up

~ Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair. ~

Livingstone, David

Work dedication makes ...

Work dedication makes you become not only a person of success, but also a person of value.
-Unknown Author -

Physical courage....

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

- Mark Twain -

In memory of my cousin....

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci -