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1. Yes and No are for good or evil, the giants of life. ~~Douglas Jerrold~~
2. Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.
3. Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
4. Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear.
5. Life, like war, is a series of mistakes, and he is not the best Christian nor the best general who makes the fewest mistakes. Poor mediocrity may secure that, but he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.
6. "Our birth is the text. Youth the introduction. During manhood we lay down a few propositions and prove them. Some passages are dull and some sprightly. Then come Inferences and Application. At seventy we say, 'Fifthly and lastly.' The Doxology is sung. The Benediction is pronounced. The book is closed. It is getting cold. Frost on the window pane. Audience gone. Shut up the church. Sexton goes home with the key on his shoulder."
7. "We want to live forever for the same reason that we want to live tomorrow. Why do we want to live tomorrow? It is because there is some one who loves you, and whom you want to see tomorrow, and be with, and love back."
8. "Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love."
9. "Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life."
10. "Ideas are funny little things. They won't work unless you do."
11. "Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age."
12. "You'll always stay young if live honestly, eat slowly, sleep sufficiently, work industriously, and worship faithfully."
13. "As the soul, itself invisible, is seen by what it does through the body."
14. "Length of life should be measured not by the number of years but by the number of right actions." Education of a Christian Prince
15. "The weapons with which the ill dispositions of the world are to be combated are moderation, gentleness, a little indulgence of others, and a great distrust of ourselves."
16. "Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement." Barry LePalmer
17. "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." John Christian
18. "The world will never starve for wonders, but only for want of wonder."
19. "All of the animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it."
20. "Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life----come poverty, come wealth, in death---come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord's. For this is written on your heart, 'We love Him because He first loved us.'"
21. "To ease one's heartache is to forget one's own."
22. "Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are."
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24. "A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough for the next six months, or take sufficient air into his lungs at one time to sustain life for a week. We must draw upon God's boundless store of grace from day to day as we need it."
25. "MAN: An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be."
26. "Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being."
27. "No man need stay the way he is."
28. "Let things true be preferred to things false, things eternal to things momentary, things useful to things agreeable."
29. "Everything we do proceeds from a decision of will, involves our intelligence and perception, leads to emotional reactions or experiences, is approved or disapproved by the conscience, and is registered in the memory in complete perspective."
30. "Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change. And when we are right, make us easy to live with."
31. "In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence; this will carry you evenly through your day's business."
32. "All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms."
33. "There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning."
