Machacek Library Quotes & Sayings

On Christmas morning, our joy or our happiness can be at a very high level, not because of our anticipation of what we might receive but, rather, in anticipation of watching our loved ones open our gifts to them. In fact, if we're not careful, we can fail to register sufficient excitement and joy upon opening the gifts we receive from others. We must remember that they are happiest at that time and to give them top billing, to stretch their happiness to its full length. — Earl Nightingale

Speed Never Slumps. — Rob Crews

Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you-then I'm asking you to tear out your heart and live without it. — Diana Gabaldon

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare. — Eric Voegelin

My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books. — Audrey Niffenegger

She also said she was proud of me, which is all anyone can wish to hear from his mother. The — Saroo Brierley

I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing. — Cate Blanchett

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us. — Oliver Goldsmith

Resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe. — Monica Furlong

You're my favorite person of all time,I see something more beautiful than the universe. — Adel Abouhana

The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers. — George Herbert

Miss Taggart," he said, with an odd note of sternness in his voice, "just remember that he represented a code of existence which - for a brief span in all human history - drove slavery out of the civilized world. Remember it, when you feel baffled by the nature of his enemies. — Ayn Rand

Purpose in the suffering

A crisis-- the kind that knocks the wind out of ya, the kind that makes your blood run cold and alters your perception of all you think your reality "is," THAT kind of crisis brings us not only to our knees, but smack-dab with every question we've ever pondered on God's existence. There is purpose in the suffering. It MAKES us ask eternal questions with eternal answers. Often that's what it takes to wake us up. The suffering is actually merciful, from a God who would literally do ANYTHING to get us to run into His arms. — Carrie Lynn Jones

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. — Anais Nin