My Favorite Quotes

For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

-Benjamin Button

You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. (Matthew 5:14-16)

Be strong!
We are not here to play, to dream, to drift;
We have hard work to do and loads to lift;
Shun not the struggle, face it, ’tis God’s gift. -M. Babcock

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -Henry David Thoreau

You must not lost faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. -Gandhi

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. -Mother Teresa

If you have come to help me you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. -Aboriginal activists

  

I may never be cool enough to remember but I still hope the heart inside me touches people and reminds them of Christ.-my sister Connie

I don't pretend to know anything... But I know I love seeing people become their best selves. -Me

"When my world shakes, heaven still stands"-from my AP Ashley

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. -Martin Luther King Jr.

  

If you want to feel proud of yourself, then do good. Take action that will make you proud. Black or white, don't make excuses, don't blame anyone, and if you really want to feel proud, then do something to help someone else. -Oseola McCarty

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.
Samuel Smiles 

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. -Nelson Mandela

 

A Virtuous Woman uses her time wisely. She does not spend time dwelling on those things that do not please the Lord. -taken from Angel B.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. -MLK Jr. 

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. -Mother Teresa

I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough…they didn’t mean enough — Mos Def

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. -Mother Teresa

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence

More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. (Romans 5:3-5)

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.-Nelson Mandela

 
Give yourself fully to the adventure of today. Walk boldly along the path of Life, relying on your ever present Companion. You have every reason to be confident because My Presence accompanies you all the days of your life - and …onward into eternity. Do not give into your fear or worry, those robbers of abundant living. Trust Me enough to face problems as they come, rather than trying to anticipate them. Fix your eyes on Me, the Author and Perfecter of your faith, and many difficulties in the road ahead will vanish before you reach them. Whenever you start to feel afraid remember that I am holding your right hand. Nothing can separate you from My Presence.

 
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.-MLK Jr. 

Never underestimate the inspirational power of your own journey. When people see you changing your life, they may be moved to follow your lead.