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  • #1
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom

  • #2
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom

  • #3
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

  • #4
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom

  • #5
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom

  • #6
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom

  • #7
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein

  • #8
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe

  • #9
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi

  • #10
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain

  • #12
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #13
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West

  • #14
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #15
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #16
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain

  • #19
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou

  • #20
    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    ― Paul Terry

  • #21
    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane

  • #22
    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    ― Garrison Keillor

  • #23
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #24
    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

  • #25
    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu

  • #26
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot

  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain

  • #28
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

  • #29
    William Shakespeare
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  • #30
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx



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