Wervershoof Quotes & Sayings

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens. — Philip Sidney

Happiness is really about deciding to look beyond the imperfections and find beauty and joy in what is, right now. — Jeffrey A. White

There is physical evidence of the body's response to doing good. Endorphins are released in the brain when you do something for someone else. Doing good really feels good. — Evelyn Lauder

Before - for years - she had let her mind close seamlessly, like an egg, around this wrong and other wrongs. — Marie Rutkoski

The more we have the less we own. — Meister Eckhart

All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom. — Publilius Syrus

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide. — Thomas Mann

Once you step onto the fairy path, it's almost like there's no way off. You have to keep going. — Brian Froud

America is a land of healthy appetites. It is not in the American character to live in order to eat. Rather, the reverse is true. Many try, but just as Americans don't make good gigolos, nether do they make good gourmets. — Ludwig Bemelmans

Most people don't know that I have a huge phobia of bugs. It's gotten worse and worse over the years, but I just can't stand them! Even thinking about bugs makes me queasy. — Kelli Berglund

You never let go of your dreams. They're meant to be pursued. And even though it might be hard reaching them, they'll pay off in the end. — Atle Jarnaes Leroy

Priscilla has made it a mission to disabuse the students who still come to L'Abri of the Schaeffer mythology. She makes no secret of her nervous breakdowns, her dependence on Prozac, her depression and anxiety attacks, her alcohol-related struggles. She will tell anyone who asks that being a Schaeffer child - and the pressure from Mom to be part of the ministry and, above all, from strangers to live up to their "Schaeffer expectations" - didn't help. When I called her to ask if she would allow me to write about her problems, and she gave me the okay, she also said "Mom drove me crazy, but in fairness I would have suffered from stress and depression anywhere. I would push too hard in L'Abri, then crash. If I had been doing something else just as intense, it would have happened, too." Susan — Frank Schaeffer