Beste Wensen 2016 Quotes & Sayings

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she'd spent her hours in the dark wondering whether she'd ever liked him. Would it really have been so much worse to spend those years alone? Why did there have to be someone else in the room while she was eating, watching TV, sleeping? — Nick Hornby

Looking at people and communicating that they can be loved, and that they can love in return, is giving them a tremendous gift. It is also a gift to ourselves. We see that we are one with the fabric of life. This is the power of metta: to teach ourselves and our world this inherent loveliness. — Sharon Salzberg

Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.'

'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as we please. That's the difference between us and everything else in creation. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

He who represents himself has a fool for a client — Abraham Lincoln

We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a world of make-belief, in a world of brutality,
violence, despair, anxiety. To live humanly, sanely, one has to change. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Solitude and boredom. It's what happens to something that's felt itself gathered together too long, too...exclusively. The vacuum that occurs at its frontiers--a kind of numbness which is generated on its torpid surface as if it had lost the sense of touch--lost contact. — Julien Gracq

A beautiful person is a person who is capable of being the best version of himself/herself, inside and out as often as possible. — Rita Zahara

I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind. — Calista Flockhart

The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction. — Lester B. Pearson

We do not merely add Jesus Christ to our lives and continue in the same direction. Following Christ means we stop, turn around, and pursue Him. — Steven J. Lawson

Far too many times in life we throw ourselves
in ships without knowing how stable they
are, or how deep is the water for it to float. — Nomthandazo Tsembeni