A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. Lou Holtz A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. Samuel Butler A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. Carl Reiner A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. Walt Whitman Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. H. G. Wells Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. Abraham Lincoln All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. Thomas Browne All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Toni Morrison Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. Ikkyu Sojun Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. William Wordsworth Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. Kin Hubbard Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. John Lubbock Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. Henry David Thoreau Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. Gerard De Nerval Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. William Shakespeare Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. Henry Ward Beecher Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. Antonio Porchia For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. Martin Luther Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. Socrates Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. Saint Basil One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. William Shakespeare Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. Mao Tse-Tung I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. Isaac Bashevis Singer I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. Alice Walker Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. Henry David Thoreau There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. Don DeLillo Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. David Gerrold

A man of courage is also full of faith. Marcus Tullius Cicero All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. Martin Luther Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Mother Teresa Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Kahlil Gibran Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. Henry Ward Beecher Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. Voltaire Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. Saint Thomas Aquinas Faith is a passionate intuition. William Wordsworth Faith is not contrary to reason. Faith is reason grown courageous. Sherwood Eddy Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King, Jr. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Saint Augustine I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness. Mother Teresa If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. Mohandas Gandhi In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. Blaise Pascal Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King, Jr. Have faith in God; God has faith in you. Edwin Louis Cole

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. Frank Howard Clark A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. Bil Keane A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. Rupert Brooke A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. Boethius A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Henri B. Stendhal A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. Honore de Balzac All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. Julie Andrews As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. William Shakespeare At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. Rita Rudner Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken. Pedro Calderon de la Barca First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. George Bernard Shaw Do all things with love. Og Mandino First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. George Bernard Shaw How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. Barbara Pym . I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. George Eliot Life is the flower for which love is the honey. Victor Hugo Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Kahlil Gibran Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire Love is a game that two can play and both win. Eva Gabor Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. William Shakespeare Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. Saint Thomas Aquinas Where there is love there is life. Mohandas Gandhi To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. Bertrand Russell Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. Anais Nin Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Zora Neale Hurston Where there is great love, there are always wishes. Willa Cather

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker Silence is the true friend that never betrays. Confucius Silence is the virtue of fools Francis Bacon We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter Martin Luther King You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut. Sally Berger It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. Sam Levenson No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. Sam Rayburn One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say Will Durant

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. Agatha Christie Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement Alfred Adler Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Arthur Eddington Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. Benjamin Spock A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else Cardinal De Retz Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him. Cicero Who would not rather trust and be deceived? Eliza Cook You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough. Frank Crane Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near Helen Rowland I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do Henry David Thoreau You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. Indira Gandhi Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-trust is the first secret of success. Ralph Waldo Emerson Love all, trust a few. William Shakespeare

Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out. Jack Buck We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing. The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. Oliver Wendell Holmes Everyone is wise until he speaks. Irish Proverbs The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid. Marcus Aurelius A real act of honesty is not enough to be honored by everyone, but being witnessed by you and God alone. Czeonollo We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before. James Truslow Adams Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. David Starr Jordan Words may very well exceed their weight in gold. Greg Evans The Delphic oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing. Socrates More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use. Antoine De Saint-Exupery The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. German Proverbs If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it. Zenrin Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials. Joseph Story The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person. Thomas Carlyle Better to get wisdom than gold. Bible Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Chuang-tzu One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. John Kenneth Galbraith I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life Mahatama Gandhi You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time. Bob Marley Wisdom is only found in truth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. Juvenal The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Jean Paul The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Wisdom begins in wonder. Socrates Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. Horace Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. Kahlil Gibran Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. Confucius

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new! St. Augustine Whatever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. Father Andre Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. Christopher Morley Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. George Santayana Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. Kahlil Gibran We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty. St. Teresa of Avila Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. Tim Robbins Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. Michelangelo Beauty is a good letter of introduction. Portuguese Proverbs Beauty is, as beauty does. Unknown A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands. English Proverbs Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal. Dante (Alighieri) Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. William Shakespeare Beauty is the promise of happiness. Henri B. Stendhal Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom. Oliver Wendell Holmes The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy. Ralph Waldo Emerson To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still. William Shakespeare The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life. Karl Kraus Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. French Proverbs Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come Source Unknown As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty always comes with risk Kazi Shams Trust not too much to an enchanting face. Virgil I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation. Tyra Banks Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me. Elizabeth Heller Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity. Plato Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from mount Gilead. [Song of Solomon 4:1] Bible

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them. Richard L. Evans Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. Chinese Proverbs It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family. Confucius Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently. Chinese Proverbs The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family. Paul Johnson The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others Pope John Paul II A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. Buddha The hatred of relatives is the most violent. Publius Cornelius Tacitus The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. Gilbert K. Chesterton What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap. Clarissa Graves A small family is soon provided for. English Proverbs Count your life by smiles; not tears; count your age by friends not years. Reader girl I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous. William S. Burroughs A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. [Proverbs 18:19] Bible As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live Pope John Paul III Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law. Mark Twain T he presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent. Yvonne De Gaulle The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants. William Shakespeare Don't believe in everything you hear but if there is one thing you need to believe in its your family. Logan Butler Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. Oscar Wilde The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart. Henry Ward Beecher Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. Anthony Brandt Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family. Marmontel Gretry

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. For it is in giving that we receive. Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging. I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. If a superior give any order to one who is under him who is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. No one is to be called an enemy; all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is injury let me sow pardon. While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. Francis of Assisi