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The Sign of the Cross: In the name of the Father of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
The Apostles' Creed: I believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He decended into hell; the third day He arose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven,and sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgivness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply!
There are no gains without pains.
Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
The Our Father: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name: Thy kingdom come: Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread: and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation: but deliver us from evil. Amen.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
"Do-so" is more important than "say-so."
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.
A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
Skill to do comes of doing.
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
The Hail Mary: Hail Mary, full of grace; the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering.
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
It takes a village to raise a child.
Glory Be to the Father: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
God sent to me an angel,
it had a broken wing.
I bent my head and wondered
"How could God do such a thing?"
When I asked the Father
why He sent this child to me,
the answer was forthcoming,
He said "Listen and you'll see."
"My children are all precious,
and none is like the rest.
Each one to me is special
and the least is as the best.
I send each one from Heaven
and I place it in the care
of those who know my mercy,
those with love to spare.
Sometimes I take them back again.
Sometimes I let them stay.
No matter what may happen
I am never far away.
So if you find an angel
and you don't know what to do,
remember, I am with you,
love is all I ask of you."
I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
The Fatima Prayer: "O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, and lead all souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of Your Mercy". Amen.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
The Hail, Holy Queen: Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy! our life, our sweetness, and our hope! To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley, of tears. Turn, then, most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us; and after this our exile show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus; O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary. Amen.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Whatever advice you give, be brief.
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.
Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!
I want to die young at a ripe old age.
All would live long, but none would be old.
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
A woman has the age she deserves.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning -- a really delightful sensation after you have ceased struggling.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
He who angers you conquers you.
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous -- a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change -- and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it -- at which point they can become human too.
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
The best love affairs are those we never had.
Do you love me because I'm beautiful,
or am I am beautiful because you love me?
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.
Oh, this is the joy of the rose: / That it blows, / And goes.
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
There are no ordinary cats.
What is this talked-of mystery of birth
But being mounted bareback on the earth?
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,
requires brains.
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.
They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
It takes a village to raise a child.
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant -- and let the air out of the tires.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Politics are not the task of a Christian.
Fame is morally neutral.
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
My garden will never make me famous,
I'm a horticultural ignoramus.
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
