Today Quotes
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.Jimi Hendrix
Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.Cindy Lew
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.Charles Darwin
Go, lovely rose!
Tell her that wastes her time and me
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1
When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us.Helen Keller, Quote of the day book
The journey to the cross began long before. As the echo of the crunching of the fruit was still sounding in the garden, Jesus was leaving for Calvary.Max Lucado, "And the Angels were Silent the Final Week of Jesus"
O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!Sophocles, Oedpius Rex
No sun - no moon! No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member -
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds,
November!Thomas Hood (1799-1845), in the poem called No!
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice