Favorite Quotations

Here are some of the quotations I've used in my blog entries:

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.  (George Eliot)

The only gift is a portion of thyself.  (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Rejoice evermore.  Rejoice evermore.  Oh, I wish that it was always in my heart and in my tongue.  (John Adams as portrayed in HBO mini-series)

Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you . . .  (St. Paul in I Thessalonians 5:16-18)

When the job is done, walk away.  (Gibbs' Rule #11 on CBS-TV's NCIS)

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.  (Confucius)

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred.  I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.  (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together?  I guess that wouldn't work.  Someone would leave.  Someone always leaves.  Then we would have to say good-bye.  I hate good-byes.  I know what I need.  I need more hellos.  (Charles M. Schulz)

This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.  (Psalms 118:24)

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.  (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.  (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes,
and the grass grows by itself.  (Zen Proverb)

I have learned that patience is not my ability to wait, it is how I act while I am waiting.  (Joyce Meyer)

The more I see, the more impressed I am - not with what we know - but with how tremendous the areas are that are as yet unexplored.  (Senator and former astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr.)

Nothing is worth more than this day.  (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Grief is the most patient and persistent of all of life’s companions.  It is an ancient, universal power that links all human beings together.  (Molly Fumia)

The presence of that absence is everywhere.  (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.  (Hebrews 11:1)

"May this fall season reconnect us to the ever-changing aspects of our lives: color, complexity, beauty and mortality."  (Kenny Moore)