Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Leap...

"We'll take this leap, and we'll see. We'll jump, and we'll see. That's life, right?"

--Patricia in Joe vs. the Volcano

Be of good cheer

"From behind the shadow of the still, small voice--more awful than tempest or earthquake--more sure and persistent than day and night--is always sounding with hope and strength to the weariest of us all, "Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."

--Thomas Hughes

Monday, February 16, 2009

With quiet eyes...

"Who loves the rain,
And loves his home,
And looks on life with quiet eyes,
Him will I follow through the storm,
And at his hearth-fire keep me warm:
Nor hell nor heaven shall that soul surprise
Who loves the rain,
And loves his home,
And looks on life with quiet eyes."

--Frances Shaw

Where...

"A crowd is not company, faces are just a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love."

--Sir Francis Bacon

Friend

"Of all the heavenly treasures that mortal men commend,
what trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend?"

--Victor Hugo

Wings

"The two wings of our souls, immune to any gust of wind, are true love and faith."

--Stanislas Xavier-Touchet

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Best

"The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life."

--Robert Louis Stevenson