Churches Toms Quotes & Sayings

If you can't pass on a little loving-kindness in this world, you might as well be a gopher in a hole. — Ross Macdonald

Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary. — James Russell Lowell

You have a four-fold life to live: a body, a brain, a heart and a soul . . . these are your living tools. To use and develop them is not a task. . . . It is a golden opportunity. — William H. Danforth

It's not right to live so long in this world only moving backward."

-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year — Yasunari Kawabata

When snow accumulates week after week, month after month, it works curious miracles. — E.B. White

Thank you, Ocean," I said to the sea. "Thank you for rolling relentlessly around the world and showing us how everything's connected. Thank you, Stars," I said looking up. "For shining down from such a distance. You show us how small we are and yet how magnificent it is to be alive. Thank you, Earth, for holding everything all together and giving us a place to walk, and sleep, and love." I squeezed Josh's hand. "And thank you, Josh, for being earth and water and stardust and for coming to me in the uniqueness of yourself. — Catou Martine

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life. — Walter Lippmann

The negativity took some getting used to, but at the end of the day, life's too short. It's too short to get upset about what other people think . . . too short not to do what makes you happy . . . too short to not call that person back, to stay angry, to hold a grudge. — Elizabeth Meyer

When our thoughts are born,
Though they be good and humble, one should mind
How they are reared, or some will go astray
And shame their mother. — Jean Ingelow

The light. The light is so bright that all that remains is you and the darkness. You can feel the audience breathing. It's like holding a gun or standing on a precipice and knowing you must jump. It feels slow and fast. It's like dying and being born and fucking and crying. It's like falling in love and being utterly alone with God; you taste your own mouth and feel your own skin and I knew I was alive and I knew who I was and that that wasn't who I'd been up till then. I'd never been so far away but I knew I was home. "I know everything," I thought. — Anonymous

If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist. — Robert Charles Wilson

We completely need him. Who else comes up with the plans?"
"Demos?"
"Yes, but he isn't hot, Nate. We talked about is. — Sarah Alderson