As you probably know already I started my accidental blogging years ago when writing reminder emails to my men's fellowship group who met at my home backyard every other week. Just in case I ran out of things to write in my self-imposed bi-weekly production, I picked up the habit of collecting quotes and tidbits of info I felt interesting and like sharing. The following are some I still have in my inventory:
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"In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
– Tom Bodett, author, radio host
"The loudest boos always come from the cheapest seats.”
– Babe Ruth, baseball legend
"Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, do you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If they pray for courage, does God give them courage, or does he give them opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for their family to be closer, you think God zaps them with warm, fuzzy feelings? Or does he give them opportunities to love each other?"
– From the movie "Evan Almighty"
A survey of about 2,200 parents of preschool children in 10 countries including the U.S. revealed a startling revelation: the average 2-year old finds it easier to operate an iPhone than to undertake tasks such as tying a shoelace. According to the study, conducted by AVG, a manufacturer of security software, while 58% of children between the ages of 2 and 5 can play a computer game, about two in 10 know how to swim and fewer than half can ride a bicycle.
"Imagine a ray of sunlight that has forgotten it is an inseparable part of the sun and deludes itself into believing it has to fight for survival and create and cling to an identity other than the sun. Would the death of this delusion not be incredibly liberating?"
– Eckhart Tolle, "The Power of Now"
"We cannot do great things. We can only do little things with great love."
– Mother Teresa
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
– Winston Churchill
"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror."
– Ken Keyes Jr.
"The saints are the sinners who keep on trying."
– Robert Louis Stevenson
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
– Mahatma Gandhi
"What lies before us and what lies behind us... are small matters compared to what lies within us... and when we bring what lies within into the world... miracles happen!"
– Henry David Thoreau
"The eagle that soars at great altitude does not worry about how it will cross a river."
– Gladys Aylward, British Missionary to China
"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than ourselves is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality."
– Iris Murdoch
"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
– French novelist Marcel Proust
"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?"
– Leroy "Satchel" Paige
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
– Mark Twain
The laws in Taiwan stipulate a man needs to be 22 to be married, but is allowed to serve in the military beginning at age 18. This can mean three things: 1) It's easier to kill people than to be a good husband; 2) Living day-to-day is harder than doing battles; 3) Women are tougher to fight than enemies.
– Hahaha
Happy Mother's Day!
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