QUOTES
BEAUTY - CHANGE - CONFIDENCE - COURAGE - FAITH
FEELING - FRIENDSHIP - GIVING - GROWTH - HEALTH
HAPINESS - HART - HOPE - JOY - LIFE - LOVE - NATURE
REST - THANKS - TRUTH - WISDOM
BEAUTY
"This is my Father's world, and to my listening ears all nature sings, and round me rings the music of the pheres"
Maltbie D. Babcock
CHANGE
"In a gentle way you can shake the world"
"You can change the world and there are ways of doing just that. You can make changes for the better if you:
Know that significant change throughout history has occurred because of the courage and commitment of individuals
Recognize that nothing you do is trivial, and everything matters
Believe that you have a unique purpose and potential
Don't wait, and don't get caught up in the details.
Take personal responsibility
Change yourself"
Be aware
Angelican bishop
CONFIDENCE
"No one knows what the next year will bring, but one thing is sure. He will be with us and He is enough for every difficulty that may arise"
"The little trouble and worries of life, so many which we meet, may be a stumbling block in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a noble character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things"
Henry Ward Beecher
COURAGE
"Let us not be frightened by the problems that confront us, but rather give thee thanks that thou hast matched us with this hour. May we resolve, God helping us, to be part of the answer, and not part of the problem"
"The best of men and the most earnest workers will make enough mistakes to make them humble. Thank God for mistakes and take courage. Don't give up on account of mistakes
"If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be"
John R. Miller
FAITH
"All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all"
"I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I have found myself, my work, and my God"
"God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness"
George MacDonald
"Faith come singing into my room and other guests took flight. Grief, anxiety, fear, and gloom, sped out into the night"
Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, but Faith looks up.
FEELING
"I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel"
Maya Angelou
FRIENDSHIP
Thanks God for friends, ore prized as years increase. Let all else, if must be, cease; but, Lord of Life, I pray on me bestow the gift of friends to share the way I go"
"That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have no control, is God's own gift."
"I thank God far more for friends than for my daily bread-for friendship is the bread of the heart"
"Thanks for the sympathies that ye have shown! Thanks for each kindly word, each silent token, that reaches me, when seeming most alone. Friends are around us, though no word be spoken"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"I thank you, God in Heaven, for friends. When morning wakes, when daytime ends, I have the consciousness of loving hands that touch my own, of tender glance and gentle tone, of thoughts that cheer and bless"
"Those we hold most dear never truly leave us. They live on in the kindnesses they showed, the comfort they shared and the love they brought into our lives"
"A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that bath found such a one bath found a treasure"
Apocrypha
GIVING
"The best way to find yourself is to loose yourself in the service of others"
"Before you receive you must give"
"Give us courage and strength to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death loyal and loving to one another"
Robert Louis Stevenson
GROWTH
"We are meant to be different. When we can accept this, there is no competition and no comparison. We have come to this world to express who we are"
Louise Hay
"In nature, loss is an essential element of life. In all cases, loss sets the stage for further creation, growth or change. In human life, it's hard to look back on any gain in life that does not have some loss attached to it"
Dawn A. DeVos PhD
HEALTH
"We thank Thee, God, for milk and bread and all our daily food; these gifts remind us day by day, our Father, Thou are good"
"Personal health and financial stability are the cone issues that determine our productivity, moral, and sense of value"
"Nutrition can be likened to a bank account; Withdrawals come from eating Dietary Offenders that rob nutritional reserves. Deposits come from eating Dietary Rejuvenators adding to nutritional reserves. The interest is the strength and vitality that comes with smart investing"
Edward Bauman PhD and M E d
HAPPINESS
"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions- the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
HEART
"Thou hast given so much to me, give one thing more - a grateful heart; not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days; but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise"
"The courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart"
Henry Clay
HOPE
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"
"Stand strong in God…for after winter, summer comes; after night, the day returns; and after a storm, calm is restored"
"Sad soul, take comfort nor forget the sunrise never failed us yet"
"You can do more than pray-but only after you have prayed"
"Our little time of suffering is not worth of our first night's welcome home to Heaven"
"I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains"
"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is god's handwriting-a wayside sacrament. Welcome it is every fair face, in every fair sky, in every flower, and thanks God for it as a cup of blessing"
"A gentle word, like summer rain, may soothe some heart and banish pain. What joy or sadness often springs from just the simple little things?"
"The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, and the path of God just before you"
Robert Louis Stevenson
JOY
"Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run. Let us run if we must-even the sands do that-but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us
"Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us"
Orison Swett Marden
LIFE
"There is none to life than increasing its speed"
"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."
Oprah Winfrey,
Television Host, Actress and Producer
LOVE
"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love"
"Gratitude consists in a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitude of God's gifts, taken one by one. It fills us with a consciousness that God loves and cares for us, even to the least event and smallest need of life"
"Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving"
Kahlil Gibran
NATURE
"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather"
Washington Irving
REST
"Rest is not a hallowed feeling that comes over us in church; it is the repose of the heart set deep in God"
Henry Drummond
THANKS
"An easy thing, O Power divine, to thank Thee for these gifts of thine, for summer's sunshine, winter's snow, for hearts that kindle, thoughts that glow
"Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not"
"Come, ye thankful people, come! Raise the song of harvest home; all is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin; God our Maker, doth provide for our wants to be supplied; come to God's own temple, come! Raise the song of harvest home"
"The private and personal blessings we enjoy, the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity, deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life"
Jeremy Taylor
TRUTH
"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank"
D.G. Rossetti
"At the center of your being you have the answer you know who you are and you know what you want"
Lao Tzu
"The hardest thing to widen is a narrow mind"
French proverb
WISDOM
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has"
"There's no creature, regardless of its apparent insignificance, that fails to show us something of God's goodness"
"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and as universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind"
"It is always good to know, if only in passing, a charming human being; it refreshes our lives like flowers and woods and clear brooks"
"Each little flower that opens, each little bird that sings, He made their glowing colors, He made their tiny wings"
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see"
"Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank"
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension"
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Adapted
From:
- In all things give thanks book 1994
- Special Lenten Edition. The Word among us, Daily Meditation for Lent 2008
(Be Renewed!). www.WORDAMONGUS.ORG
- Eating for Health. Bauman College. Nutrition Educator Handbook:
Distance Learning Edition
