Happy Three Kings Day Quotes & Sayings

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. — Stephen R. Covey

Much is imagination, more is truth, but which is which I scarcely can tell myself. — L. Adams Beck

Listen with Ease Have you ever sat very silently, not with your attention fixed on anything, not making an effort to concentrate, but with the mind very quiet, really still? Then you hear everything, don't you? You hear the far off noises as well as those that are nearer and those that are very close by, the immediate sounds - which means really that you are listening to everything. Your mind is not confined to one narrow little channel. If you can listen in this way, listen with ease, without strain, you will find an extraordinary change taking place within you, a change that comes without your volition, without your asking; and in that change there is great beauty and depth of insight. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Both read the Bible day and night,
But thou read'st black where I read white. — William Blake

She means the devil with people who say you're anything but what you are. — Octavia E. Butler

I thought Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off. — Mark Haddon

I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I wanted to work with people that I respected and liked. — Josh Lawson

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law. — Barack Obama

Sometimes man needs great failures today to accomplish great successes tomorrow! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority. — Simon Blackburn

And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Are you overdone yet? — Charlotte Henley Babb

This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts:
Fear knocked at the door.
Faith answered.
There was no one there. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I would find the words to tell him how I was so scared, as if I were being stuffed farther and farther into a black, airless sack with no way out. — Sylvia Plath

The 2006 playoffs were such a rollercoaster for me. I was able to lean on God and know that no matter what things were going to work out the way they were meant to work out. I had that trust that allowed me to go into the games without fear. When I prayed before games, I was able to just let it go. When I played in game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals, I prayed more that day than I have my whole life. That was a day that I leaned on the Lord a lot. It helped me to face some of my fears. — Matt Cullen