Furnell Lenses Quotes & Sayings

Be humble and you will never be disturbed. It is very difficult in practice because we all want to see the result of our work. Leave it to Jesus. — Mother Teresa

In treating people as less important than things, work becomes both demoralised and demoralising and we become blind to the moral content of our decisions ... Money and wilfful blindness make us act in ways incompatible wiht what believe our ethics to be, and often even with our own self-interest ... the problem with money isn't fundamentally about greed, although it can be comforting to think so. The problem with money is that we live in societies in which mutual support and co-operation is essential, but money erodes the relationships we need to lead productive, fulfilling and genuinely happy lives. When money becomes the dominant behavior, it doesn't cooperate with, or amplify, our relationships; it disengages us from them. — Margaret Heffernan

We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty. — Charles Fillmore

He'd tried so hard to fight his fear, but there was a something liberating about giving up the battle and recognizing his fear was part of him. It wasn't something to be exorcised. It wasn't something to be obeyed. It needed only to be acknowledged. — Marie Sexton

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty. — Jonathan Swift

There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself. — Colin Cotterill

Fair, fair warning -- if there's one thing i've learned, there are no fair warnings. — Harriet Showman

Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared. — Stephen Kinzer

I've got no problems with my age. I rejoice in the knowledge I have accrued and savor the greatest moments, because I know how fast it goes. — Mariska Hargitay

We too easily put boundaries on defining who we are. — Elaina Marie

Teaching is like flying a plane. You leave school one day feeling like you're spiraling down toward the trees, expecting that the next day the crash will come. You brace yourself for the impact, only to find that things have leveled out at treetop height, and you climb and enjoy the remainder of the flight. — Herb Trimpe

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym. — Arthur Schopenhauer