Cool Quotes

“If God had a refrigerator your name would be on it”  Anonymous

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”  Unknown

“It’s not that some people have willpower and some do not.  It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.” James Gordon

“What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?” Irv Cupcinet

“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”

Pietro Aretino

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained”

C.S. Lewis

Christian love is finding one’s own joy in actively working for the joy of another, even at the self-sacrificial cost of one’s own private pleasure, all for the glory of God. And that is the kind of love we are to possess as Christians and the kind of love we are to exercise.  -Steve Roy

“God is not a belief to which you give your assent. God becomes a reality whom you know intimately, meet everyday, one whose strength becomes your strength, whose love, your love. Live this life of the presence of God long enough and when someone asks you, “Do you believe there is a God?” you may find yourself answering, “No, I do not believe there is a God. I know there is a God.”

~Ernest Boyer, Jr.

“I’m not telling you it is going to be easy – I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it” – Art Williams

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” ~ Zig Ziglar

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think many times we are afraid to drop our guard because we’re afraid that people will think that we are spiritually fake. Well, the truth is that we are. And so are they. And we’re all trying to fake each other out.

— Rich Mullins

Seize upon that moment long ago
One breath away and there you will be
So young and carefree
Again you will see
That place in time…so gold

Still away into that way back when
You thought that all would last forever
But like the weather
Nothing can ever…and be in time
Stay gold ~ Stevie Wonder

I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out (screwed-up) and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out.”
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
Dwight L. Moody

“Have we now forgotten this powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?… The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: ‘that God governs in the affairs of man.’ ” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Screw being thin or younger looking or having fancier clothes. Now is the time. Do you know why? Because we here in Pughville have never been happier or more content or more connected as a family and those are the things that truly translate into a beautiful image. Those are the things that I want to remember.   – dana at short and sweet photography

“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. ” Robert Benchley

“Because I am loved by God, I can confess my flaws – laziness, grouchiness, self-doubt- and trust God to keep on

transforming me. I no longer need toappear perfect

to friends, family, and anyone who attends my

high-school reunion.”

~ Jan Johnson ~

I get it. We just have to keep playing. Keep showing up. And let life steal our hearts away.

- Cristina

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamous in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

- Carl Sandburg

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
~George Eliot

If you’re not willing to make mistakes, you’ll be paralyzed with inaction.  That is the devil.  Get out there and do stuff.  If it works, do more of it.  If it doesn’t work, change it.  Quickly. – Steve Jobs

“I’m so broke, if it cost a nickel to shit, I’d have to throw up.” – Single Dad Laughing blog