Book Nook Cafe discussion

Please share your favorite quotes with us. :)

Maybe you have a favorite from a book you are currently reading or read in the past? Please share it with us.

Perhaps you have come across a quote that is inspirational. If so share it with the group. :)

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
― Alfred Tennyson

“Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”
― Brad Paisley

“May Light always surround you;
Hope kindle and rebound you.
May your Hurts turn to Healing;
Your Heart embrace Feeling.
May Wounds become Wisdom;
Every Kindness a Prism.
May Laughter infect you;
Your Passion resurrect you.
May Goodness inspire
your Deepest Desires.
Through all that you Reach For,
May your arms Never Tire.”
― D. Simone

Simply trusting every day;
Trusting through a stormy way;
Even when my faith is small,
Trusting Jesus, that is all.
Trusting as the moments fly,
Trusting as the days go by,
Trusting Him, whate’er befall,
Trusting Jesus, that is all.

Brightly doth His Spirit shine
Into this poor heart of mine;
While He leads I cannot fall,
Trusting Jesus, that is all.

Singing if my way be clear,
Praying if the path be drear;
If in danger, for Him call,
Trusting Jesus, that is all.

Trusting Him while life shall last,
Trusting Him till earth is past,
Till His gracious advent call,
Trusting Jesus, that is all.
- Ed­gar P. Stites.

An ant has no quarrel with a boot.
- Loki

Nice, Rebecca. Thanks for sharing that.

Thanks for sharing fresh quotes for the new year. Offhand i cannot think of any but always appreciate reading what others share here.

deb

Proverb I saw on fb today


If you want to go faster, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.
~~ Fran Lebowitz

Beautiful Quote. Thank you, Alias.

Madrano wrote: "Beautiful Quote. Thank you, Alias."

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I really should read his autobiography. I own it, just haven't found the time. Poor excuse, I know.

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

I haven't read it either. The book by him I have read is Why We Can't Wait. I felt it was very powerful in making its points.

"There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.”
― John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery"


“I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners


“If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours.”
― Charles Caleb Colton


“To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir

Such beautiful quotes, Jon ! Thank you. :)

Nice quotes, Jon. Glad you shared with us.

"I should like to touch every heart among my readers with nothing but loving humour, with tenderness, with belief in goodness."

-- George Eliot

Nice !

"Loving humour" is a good expression.

“Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid pressure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.”
― James Joyce

Joyce had such a way with words. In every book, I would come across passages like this that needed to be read slowly and savored......

Love it when a writer can stop me right in my tracks.

Still with Thee, O my God,
I would desire to be;
By day, by night, at home, abroad,
I would be still with Thee.
With Thee when dawn comes in
And calls me back to care,
Each day returning to begin
With Thee, my God, in prayer.
With Thee when darkness brings
The signal of repose,
Calm in the shadow of Thy wings,
Mine eyelids I would close.

With Thee, in Thee, by faith
Abiding, I would be;
By day, by night, in life, in death,
I would be still with Thee.
James D. Burns, 1857

What a lovely peaceful sentiment.

Thanks for sharing, Rebecca !

Your welcome! I've always found it inspiring.

Beautiful.

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”

― William Shakespeare

Lovely. Thanks.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

~~ Anne Lamott

'Keep your eyes to the skies and your feet on the ground.'

Good advice, Sianna ! :)

Alias Reader wrote: "Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

~~ Anne Lamott"

Good one & a bit of a mantra (the first part, anyway) in our family. We've "fixed" so many appliances by unplugging. Neat expression. Thanks, Alias.

madrano wrote: "Alias Reader wrote: "Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

~~ Anne Lamott"

Good one & a bit of a mantra (the first part, anyway) in our family. We'..."

I saw a post by her on FB. It's her birthday April 10th. She was posting a list of "things I learned."

Neat idea. Happy Birthday, Anne Lamott!

“If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

:)

Interesting quote, Jon.

Saw this posted on FB. I thought it was good reminder to remember the little blessings of each day.

Every day may not be good...but there is something good in every day.

Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.

~~~ Pema Chodron
http://pemachodronfoundation.org/

Pema Chodron

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

~~~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Your predominant thoughts will become your reality.
Choose wisely !

---Allan Wilson

I like that last one very much.

"We'd been going to chow, all of Gun Six, laughing and joking until Sergeant Deetz stopped midsentence. He froze, then shifted, straightened to his full height, and whispered, "Ahhh-ten-HUT."

We all snapped to attention, not knowing why. Sergeant Deetz raised his right hand in salute, and so did we. Then I saw saw, off in the distance, well down the road, four Corpsmen coming out of Fallujah Surgical carrying a stretcher draped with the American flag. Everything was silent, still. All down the road, Marines and sailors had snapped to.

Everyone standing on the road as the body went past had been so utterly silent, so still. There was no sound or movement except for the slow steps of the Corpsmen and the steady progress of the corpse. It'd been an image of death from another world. But now I know where that corpse was headed, to the old gunny at PRP. And if there was a wedding ring, the gunny would have slowly worked it off the stiff, dead fingers. He would have gathered all the personal effects and prepared the body for transport. Then it would have gone by air to TQ. And as it was unloaded off the bird, the marines would have stood silent and still, just as we had in Fallujah. And they would have put it on a C-130 to Kuwait. And they would have stood silent and still in Kuwait. And they would have stood silent and still in Germany, and silent and still at Dover Air Force base. Everywhere it went, Marines and sailors and soldiers and airmen would have stood at attention as it traveled to the family of the fallen, where the silence, the stillness, would end"
Phil Klay, Redeployment, Ten Kliks South

Perfect quote, Jon, for Memorial Day. Thanks for sharing that.

~~~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam – Aerospace scientist and former President of India

What a good quote to share. I think young people in school would particularly treasure it. Thanks for spreading the quote, Alias.

"But I don't see the use of meeting trouble half-way (...)"

Lucy M. Montgomery, "Anne of Green Gables"

"I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by "the joy of the strife". Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing."

Lucy M. Montgomery, "Anne of Green Gables"

Thanks for sharing, Catarina! I love Anne of Green Gables !

Thanks, Deb. I'm glad you liked the quote. I added it to the quote journal that I keep.

Catarina, i enjoyed the book your two quotes are from. It was neat to see how L.M. Montgomery used the characters to teach readers lessons. Young & old readers, i dare add. Thanks.

Alias Reader and madrano, you're very welcome. And, as you can imagine, I also love "Anne of Green Rabers". :) Madrano, I agree with what you say and yes, you're right, that book is also for old readers and those lessons are also for them.

I understand there was a television program(s) based on the books, too. I've not seen it but hope they followed the books, story & education-wise.