Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
Yogi Berra
Grief is a jagged, uphill climb. Easy does it. Pain takes a lot of
energy.
In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly
in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do
tall people burn slower?
Warren Hutcherson
We must learn from the mistakes of others because we won't live long enough to make them all ourselves.
God's Will
Will not take you to a place
Where His grace cannot sustain you.
Once you accept the conscience of God however you define Him, however you explain your relationship to Him then you are caught forever with His presence in the centre of all things.
Morris West
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives; it is the only way we can leave the future open.
The feeling remains that God is on the journey too.
Teresa of Avila
People say they'll believe it when they see it...
But they'll see it when they believe it...
But I know God didn't bring me this far to drop me on my ass now.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore
We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.
Talmudic saying
Step 1 I can't,
Step 2 He can,
Step 3 I should let Him.
Humility may, if one is fortunate, occur when the I is not in
operation. One can see humility operating in others. They are not
aware of it. The moment One says "I've got humility," it is gone.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself
less.
More and more, I know less and less, about more and more.
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
Dame Margot Fonteyn
I wanted to be famous and God made me anonymous.
Rule of St. Benedict and other authors says that eventually we "welcome joyfully the truth that God is God and we are not."
It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers.
John P. Loughrane
You can not fight against the future.
W. E. Gladstone
Humility is evasive: Just when you think you have it, you don't.
Thomas Jefferson
No matter where you've been or what you have done, somebody has "been there" or "done that" before you.
Humility is a strange thing, the minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.
E. D. Hulse
Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this, leaving all else alone.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
We must perform self analysis and change our behaviour and character. We must not pretend to be something which we are not, which results in friction. We must not deceive our fellow man.
I am not a human being having a spiritual experience,
I am a spiritual being having a human experience.
Life isn't a destination; it's a journey. We all come upon unexpected curves and turning points, mountaintops and valleys. Everything that happens to us shapes who we are becoming. And in the adventure of each day, we discover the best in ourselves.
We shall never rest, until we become that which we have always been.
What you are is God's gift to you; what you make of it is your gift to God.
Anthony Dalla Villa
We do not go into the desert to escape people but to learn how to find them; we do not leave them in order to have nothing more to do with them, but to find out the way to do them the most good.
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
Confucius
If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?
God must hide in people; it's the last place anyone would think to look.
If you do not find God in the next person you meet, you might as well stop trying.
Mahatma Gandhi
I just got skylights put in my place. The people who live above me are furious.
Everybody is my teacher. Some teach me what to do; some teach me what not to do.
Do cemetery workers prefer the graveyard shift?
If you are hating somebody, you might as well call them up in the middle of the night because they are sleeping like a log while you are the one losing sleep.
Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?
When they are ready, you can do no wrong. If they are not ready, you can do no right.
When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in
the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?
Robin Williams
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?
When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their signs?
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
On this date [30 June] in 1941, Ruth Hock, Secretary, Office Manager, and only employee of the AA Foundation, saw a little prayer in the New York Times. She copied it twenty times on a stencil and mimeographed a bunch of copies, cutting them in strips. From that date on, she included a copy of the
Serenity Prayer with each response to inquiries about Alcoholics Anonymous.
Sometimes the voice we hear...
needs to be...
our own.
Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.
Brendan Francis
GOD means getting good orderly direction.
Our immediate temptation will be to ask for specific solutions to specific problems, and for the ability to help other people as we have already thought they should be helped. In that case, we are asking God to do it our way.
Be very careful what you ask God for; He may just give it to you.
Trying to pray is praying.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale
For all that's been, thank you, for all that's to be, yes.
God does not make terms too difficult to those who seek Him.
A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.
Brother Lawrence
Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's curative.
It is creative.
Let God love you through others and let God love others through you.
D. M. Street
No one ever committed suicide in the midst of helping someone else.
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Love "bears all things" and "endures all things." These words say all there is to be said; nothing can be added to them. For we are in the deepest sense the victims and the instruments of cosmogonic "love."
What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference between a date and a job interview is that in not many job interviews is there a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it.
Relationships are hard. It's like a full-time job, and we should
treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave
you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be
severance pay, and before they leave you, they should have to find
you a temp.
Bob Ettinger
Of love, of help, of understanding, and of sympathy, give and keep
giving.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
As the pain subsides, a healing tranquility takes its place. And when humility and serenity are combined, something else of great moment is apt to occur.
I went for a walk last night and my kids asked me how long I'd be gone. I said, "The whole time".
Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.
Robert Grudin
Change is a process, not an event.
Step Seven says a whole life geared to self-centredness cannot be set
in reverse all at once. This is a programme of one day at a time. And
practice makes for progress.
Yesterday is a cancelled cheque, tomorrow is a promissory note, today is cash in hand; spend it wisely.
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed
through life trying to save.
The space between yesterday and today is filled with acceptance, forgiveness and remembering to laugh.
You can measure distance by time. "How far away is it?" "Oh about 20 minutes." But it doesn't work the other way. "When do you get off work?" "Around 3 miles."
We live in deeds, not in years ...
Gamailial Bailey
Our life on earth is but a moment in the great galactic event of
endless possibilities.
Each day gently reminds me, that we're all a part, that we all love each other, in the family of heart.
Inner Thoughts And Visions
The destruction of a human being, no matter the form that destruction takes, leaves an incredible void in the universe
We may not have it all together but, together, we have it all.
Opinions are like that part of the anatomy we all sit on. Each of has one and at one time or another, they all stink.
The world breaks everyone, and afterwards, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
We all know that God never closes one door without opening another... but it can be painful in the hallway.
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance that principle is
contempt prior to investigation.
After eating, do amphibians need to wait an hour before getting out of the water?
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
Why don't they just make mouse-flavoured cat food?
If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?
Why does moisture ruin leather? Aren't cows outside a lot of the
time? When it's raining, do cows go up to the farmhouse, "Let us
in. We're all wearing leather, open the door! We're going to ruin
the whole outfit here."
Do hungry crows have ravenous appetites?
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
All elephants walk on tiptoe, because the back portion of their foot
is made up of all fat and no bone.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian
coat of arms for that reason.
What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only
endangered plants?
Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through
my fishburger and I realise, Oh my Gosh ... I could be eating a slow
learner.
Lynda Montgomery
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the
air is a skein.
The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off
several times a year with new growth.
I think many more of the humorous items should be credited to Jerry Seinfeld, but they were not specifically identified by the friends who sent them to me.
Many, many of the one-liners were lifted from mails and sigfiles I received from all over the world. Thanks, guys.
Many others I first came across while reading "In God's Care", published by Hazelden. Thank you.
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