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#1

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased

#2

“For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.”
― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

143 likes

#3

“You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: the-hobbit

165 likes

#4

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, god, religion

11236 likes

#5

“Apathy is a tide pool that drowns its victims.”
― K.M. Weiland, Dreamlander

6 likes

#6

“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
― C. S. Lewis

tags: christianity

2466 likes

#7

“The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: art, christianity, integrity, literature, writers

196 likes

#8

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

664 likes

#9

“Be mindful of the future. But not at the expense of the moment.”
― George Lucas, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Illustrated Screenplay

23 likes

#10

“presume nothing”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

127 likes

#11

“I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh.

"There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

1952 likes

#12

“There are events in one's life which, no matter how remote, never fade from memory”
― Jim Corbett, Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag

tags: life, memory, past, reminiscence, remote

7 likes

#13

“Do not by any means destroy yourself. For if you live, you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike.”
― C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis

3 likes

#14

“Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.”
― Edith Stein

tags: love, truth

49 likes

#15

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: family, friends, parties, social

12465 likes

#16

“And again she looked at Faramir. 'No longer do I desire to be a queen,' she said.
Then Faramir laughed merrily. 'That is well,' he said; 'for I am not a king. Yet I will wed with the White Lady of Rohan, if it be her will. And if she will, then let us cross the River and in happier days let us dwell in fair Ithilien and there make a garden. All things will grow with joy there, if the White Lady comes.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien

tags: eowyn, faramir, love

42 likes

#17

“I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: courage, eowyn, fantasy, healing, return-of-the-king

58 likes

#18

“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
― William Wilberforce

985 likes

#19

“What we do in life, echoes in eternity.”
― Maximus Decimus Meridius

tags: gladiator, movie, russel-crowe

21 likes

#20

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: god, heart, humanity, inspirational, prayer, religion, souls, weakness

6415 likes

#21

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life

4238 likes

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