Quoteful Tuesday

I don't feel like doing a real entry today, so I thought I would leave you with some quotes to ponder. Maybe some of them will help bring insight or perspective to something in your life.

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

~ Unknown

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

~Abraham Lincoln

"Some people only dream of angels, we held one in our arms."

~ Unknown

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."

~ George Sand

"Faith makes things possible, not easy."

~ Unknown

"Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more."

~ Brother David Steindl-Rast

"Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."

~ Carl Sandburg

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

~ Mark Twain

"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."

~ Dorothy Thompson

"God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers."

~Jewish Proverb

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"Friends are God's way of taking care of us."

~ Unknown

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."

~Francis Bacon

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

~ Theodore Hesburgh

"Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails."

~ I Corinthians 13:4-8