October 2009
41 posts
“We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.”
—Henry Ward Beecher (via seechelci)
“Life is the soul’s nursery -
Its training place for the destinies of eternity.” —William Makepeace Thackeray (via kari-shma)
Its training place for the destinies of eternity.” —William Makepeace Thackeray (via kari-shma)
“You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.”
—Dale Carnegie (via justbesplendid)
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
—C.S. Lewis (via justbesplendid)
“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we know.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via justbesplendid)
And his principal complaint about other human beings was that they so seldom noticed it when they were happy. So when we were drinking lemonade under an apple tree in the summer, say, and talking lazily about this and that, almost buzzing like honeybees, Uncle Alex would suddenly interrupt the agreeable blather to exclaim, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’
So I do the same now, and so do my kids and grandkids. And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and a mystery.”
— H. G. Wells (via sweetandlovelythings)
