Unliving Resident Quotes & Sayings

To be grateful for the good things that happen in our lives is easy, but to be grateful for all of our lives the good as well as the bad, the moments of joy as well as the moments of sorrow, the successes as well as the failures, the rewards as well as the rejections that requires hard spiritual work. Still, we are only grateful people when we can say thank you to all that has brought us to the present moment. As long as we keep dividing our lives between events and people we would like to remember and those we would rather forget, we cannot claim the fullness of our beings as a gift of God to be grateful for. Let's not be afraid to look at everything that has brought us to where we are now and trust that we will soon see in it the guiding hand of a loving God. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Winning - that's the most important to me. It's as simple as that. — Cristiano Ronaldo

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me. — Mark Twain

How do you irradiate the humbly trivial - the sneezes and waiting in bus-queues - with the lofty, and at the same time cherish above all in the lofty those things that nourish you here, today, in all your ordinariness? I cannot understand, in other words, what sort of God would bother to count every hair on my head. — Robert Dessaix

Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change, and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal? — Eugenio Maria De Hostos

Parents who are connected to their children should not be relegated to talking to their children around handheld digital devices. If your child is using an iTouch, iPad, cell phone, or a video game during most of your conversations -- occasionally glancing up at you to make eye contact -- he or she is more connected to the digital world than to your conversation. — Carrie Goldman

Yes, it will hurt for some time. Things have to hurt before they can heal. That is the way of life. — Sherry D. Ficklin

I'm not letting go of you" - Sam — Jojo Moyes

Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure". — Winston Churchill

During a very busy life I have often been asked, "How did you manage to do it all?" The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly. — Richard Tangye

Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror. — Thomas M. Disch