Posts from 4/14-19/15

As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and b) It is best to be prepared.
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

 The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.
- Titus 2:11-12

 Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
- Ronald E. Osborn

 If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
- Beryl Markham

 It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.
- J.K. Rowling

 Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting.
- Psalm 147:1

 Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.
- John Maxwell

 One finds limits by pushing them.
- Herbert Simon

 Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
- Samuel Butler

 He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
- Micah 6:8

 The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
- Baltasar Gracian

 The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
- George Eliot

 Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
- Toni Morris

 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
- James 4:13-15

 Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.
- J P Getty

 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
- Philippians 3:13-14

 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
- Jeremiah 29:11

 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.
- Philippians 4:4

 Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
- Hosea 6:1