I have always loved quotes. I collect them, stash them in journals, books, planners. I reread them and rediscover them as needed. They inspire me, motivate me and keep me from feeling alone. I am always amazed by people who can express some universal truth in a handful of words. So I am amassing a collection - HERE. That way I won't have to try to remember where I stuck that quote or find myself saying "Who said that?" And maybe I will come up with a few of my own.
"There will be grace come to you. There is a grace of office adequate for every task you will be called to do. In the amazing generosity under which we live it awaits you, not to grasp by desire, but to submit to by will."
- Dr. Donald Cowan, President, University of Dallas 1962-1977
"Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to drw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kils countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of thing occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man cpould have dreamt would come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
- Quotation from the Scottish Himalayan Expedition
"True self, when violated, will always resist us, sometimes at a great cost, holding our lives in check until we honor its truth."
- Author unknown
"What if you woke up today with only the things you gave thanks for yesterday."
- Jenni Groft
"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."
- Fr. Michael O'Grady (I think!)
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