forgiveness

Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

C.S. Lewis

splendid

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

C.S. Lewis

silence

I have learned now that while those who speak about ones miseries usually hurt, but those who keep silence hurt more.

C.S. Lewis

experience

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

C.S. Lewis

shores

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with.

Plato

forest

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Robert Louis Stevenson

second

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Albert Camus

autumn

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it,

and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth

seeking the successive autumns.

George Eliot

worm

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

puddle-wonderful

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

e. e. cummings

security

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Helen Keller

story

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

seasons

I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing.

Donald Miller

bridge

Don't cross the bridge until you get to it.

English Proverb

loneliness

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

stillness

Once I knew only darkness and stillness...my life was without past or future...but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Helen Keller

right

You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

Anne Lamott

taught

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Sir Winston Churchill

empty

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.

Corrie ten Boom

darkness

In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

Corrie ten Boom (The Hiding Place)