Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.
-Melba Colgrove

The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.

C. S. Lewis

Faith is a living and unshakable confidence. A belief in God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake. -- Martin Luther

"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
- Len Wein

A multitude of small delights constitutes happiness.
Charles Baudelaire

Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.
George MacDonald

Cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; draw a curtain before his stains, display his perfection; bury his weakness in silence, proclaim his virtues on the housetop.
Robert South

Sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, speaking a true word, or making a friend.
John Ruskin

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
Augustine

The vigour of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.
George Mueller

Half of love is listening.
Carol Weston

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish you to be.
Thomas a Kempis

A lady of forty-seven who has been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: "Love is what you've been through with somebody."
James Thurber

The thousand-mile journey starts with one step.
Japanese proverb

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
Emily Post

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal

One reason I don't drink is I want to know when I'm having a good time.
Nancy Astor

So I cried- it's better to be sensitive than unfeeling.
Carol Weston

That it will never come again
is what makes life so sweet.
-Emily Dickinson