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Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward things we are

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

“There are three things that only God knows: the beginning of things, the cause of things and the end of things.” — Welsh Proverb

The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

“What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.” Meister Eckhart

“Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.”

Julian of Norwich

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush.

Jean Pierre de Caussade

Our lives end the day we become silent about the things that matter.

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

“Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible.” Corrie ten Boom

I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light. ~Mary Gardiner Brainard

Die geluk in jou lewe hang af van die kwaliteit van jou denke.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”

Margaret B. Runbeck

“Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.” William Carey

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

“I say no to drugs, but they don’t listen.”

Marilyn Manson, Singer

It will be years – not in my time – before a woman will become Prime Minister…

Margaret Thatcher

“Elephants Please Stay In Your Car.”

Safari park sign

"The government is not doing enough about cleaning up the environment. This is a good planet."

Mr. New Jersey contestant when asked what he would do with a million dollars.

“We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite”

Murray Walker, Sportscaster

“Guys aren’t able to get $15 or $20 million anymore, so you have to play for the love of the game.”

Penny Hardaway, NBA Basketball Player

Radio has no future…

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending and having the two as close together as possible.

George Burns

I don’t diet. I just don’t eat as much as I’d like to.”

Linda Evangelista, Supermodel

“If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there’ll be a record.”

Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman

During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails

Associated Press

“I’m convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.”

Milos Forman, Film director

No audience will ever be able to take more than ten minutes of animation…

“I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.”

Stuart Pearce

It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Dan Quayle, U.S. Vice President

“It is thought that Raj Mohammed Poselay was beaten to death, possibly during a family fun day in the park.”

Newspaper, Wolverton Express & Star (UK)

“Danger Slow Men At Work”

Road sign in Brunei

It is impossible to transmit speech electrically. The ‘telephone’ is as mythical as the unicorn.
Professor Johann Christian Poggendorrf, Germany physicist and chemist, 1860

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

Tanith Lee