Irish Family Blessings Quotes & Sayings

Of late years wealth has made us greedy, and self-indulgence has brought us, through every kind of sensual excess, to be, if I may so put it, in love with death both individual and collective — Livy

There are those much more rare people who never lose their curiosity, their almost childlike wonder at the world; those people who continue to learn and to grow intellectually until the day they die. And these usually are the people who make contributions, who leave some part of the world a little better off than it was before they entered it. — William Herbert Sheldon

I entered what I can only describe as an alternate universe, and experienced timelessness for myself, first-hand. There was no refuting the immortality of the soul for me ever again after that. — Susan Schneider

Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead. — Rumi

When you write a song, a song has longevity. — Smokey Robinson

And in terms of welfare, of course, the loss suffered will be much greater than the loss in merely arithmetical terms, because the psychological losses of those who are unemployed will greatly outweigh the psychological gains of those with a slightly higher income in terms of purchasing power. — Henry Hazlitt

Normally, she never paid calls, not on her own. But this was life after
Leo - a series of tiny, halting steps toward independence. — Tessa Dare

While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes will be kings, and among the kings an emperor. — David Gemmell

Our patience will achieve more than our force. — Edmund Burke

Reward is its own virtue. — Carolyn Wells

My lip trembled, my throat raw, and I started to cry. But not because I didn't look perfect. But because I looked healthy and because I wasn't sure how long I'd stay that way. — Laekan Zea Kemp

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. — Anonymous

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever. — Jonathan Swift

His words had fingers, and as he spoke, they drifted down my body, fondling me and arousing me. — C.D. Reiss

And seeing her makeup free, in a nightgown and ponytail, her lips bruised from his kisses, her face flushed with sex, he thought she'd never looked more adorable, never prettier, beyond beautiful. — Kristen Ashley