| Compiling a list of quotes is a daunting endeavor, simply because there are so many great quotes. I am always adding to my list, and these are shared in no particular order: “Those who say it can’t be done should not bother those who are doing it.” Chinese proverb ---------- "I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail." Jim Elliot ---------- "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do." Edward Everett Hale ---------- "The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have." Ring Lardner ---------- “Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.” Francis Keppel ---------- “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” C.S. Lewis ---------- "Precious Father, why have you given me the desire to be a great wrestler, and then made me such a stinky warrior?" (my daily prayer) Nacho Libre ---------- “Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.” Beatrix Potter ---------- “My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.” Margret Mead ---------- "A person's a person, no matter how small." Dr. Seuss via Horton the Elephant ---------- “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Suess ---------- “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" Mary Anne Radmacher ---------- Saupere Aude: Dare to be wise ---------- Credite amori vera dicenti: Believe love speaking the truth ---------- "A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse." Eddie ---------- “No one can change straw into gold. Some things are just straw, and some things are just gold, and sometimes you just have to know which is which.” Della in Straw into Gold from Tales of the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird ----------- “So much has been given to me, I have not time to ponder that which I have been denied.” Helen Keller ---------- “Just…be…Roy” Monica, from Mystery Men ---------- "Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other." Ed Howe ---------- "The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet." Ann Landers ---------- “Don't wait. The time will never be just right.” Napoleon Hill ---------- “My heart is singing for joy this morning. A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed.” Anne Sulivan (Helen Keller's "Teacher") ---------- “The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.” G.C. Lichtenberg ---------- “If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.” Rachel Carson ---------- "Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do" Voltaire ---------- "Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?" Martin Luther King Jr. ---------- "Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong... because sometime in your life, you will have been all of these." ---------- “I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.” Abraham Lincoln ---------- "I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child.” Angelina Jolie ---------- "Sometimes I see birds eating donuts." Hannah ---------- "Everyone would agree that children need to have a family. I have the ability to help children fulfill that desire. Why should I say no?" Angelina Jolie ---------- "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." Antoine de aint-Exupery ---------- "The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school." George Bernard Shaw ---------- "I meant what I said, and I said what I meant; an elephant's faithful one hundred percent." Dr. Seuss via Horton the Elephant ---------- "God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing." C. S. Lewis ---------- "It's not okay... but it will be." Gordon from Sesame Street, said to Big Bird after 911 ---------- "Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see." C. S. Lewis ---------- "No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear." C. S. Lewis ---------- "Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief." C. S. Lewis ---------- "The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not." C. S. Lewis ---------- "We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive." C. S. Lewis ---------- "You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." C. S. Lewis ---------- "Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart walking around outside your body." Elizabeth Stone ---------- "Have an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out." ---------- Disturb us, Lord, when We are too well pleased with ourselves, When our dreams have come true Because we have dreamed too little, When we arrived safely Because we sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, Lord, when With the abundance of things we possess We have lost our thirst For the waters of life; Having fallen in love with life, We have ceased to dream of eternity And in our efforts to build a new earth, We have allowed our vision Of the new Heaven to dim. Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, To venture on wider seas Where storms will show your mastery; Where losing sight of land, We shall find the stars. We ask You to push back The horizons of our hopes; And to push into the future In strength, courage, hope, and love. Sir Frances Drake, 1577 |
| Mom-isms... Jordan wrote down a list of all the things I say over and over again, but I need to find the list. These are just a few off the top of my head, but when I find my list I will update this "Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone has something, that if you knew, you would say, 'Oh, now I understand.'" ---------- "I would not change the past because all that has happened has made us what we are, and has prepared us for what we will be." ---------- "When questioning about God, ask questions like you know there is an answer, you just don't know what it is yet." ---------- "Picture yourself on the other side." ---------- "There is no shame in feelings -- feeling afraid, doubtful, despondent -- the shame is in acting on those feelings." ---------- "Don't make any decisions based on fear." ---------- "Guard your heart and guard your mind; nobody else is going to do it for you." ---------- "Sometimes that happens." - said compassionately to children when anything is wrong ---------- "You can't get in trouble if you ask first." - said to children --------- "The gift of wisdom without the power of persuasion is essentially useless." ---------- "Failure is not necessarily a sign of failure." ---------- |
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