What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
--Saint Augustine
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Happiness and peace
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Friday, September 2, 2011
The glory of friendship
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with friendship.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday, September 1, 2011
These are the gifts
To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
The habit of being happy
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
--Robert Louis Stevenson Monday, August 29, 2011
Duty
Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.
--Robert E. Lee Sunday, August 28, 2011
Love is the emblem
--Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
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