Friday's Quotes | Food For Weekend Thought July 13th

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Friday Quote Collection July 13th, 2012
FRIDAY'S QUOTATIONS - "Food For Weekend Thought" Assembled by R. VARGA

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"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."
- Unknown

"I never lost a game. I just ran out of time."
- Bobby Layne

"Disappointments are to the soul what thunderstorms are to the air."
- Johann C. F. von Schiller

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal;
Love leaves a memory no one can steal."
- From a headstone in Ireland

"When fearful, I am all that I can think about."
- A. F. Raud

"Some people feel the rain, others just get wet."
- Unknown

"When all are wrong, everyone is right."
- La Lehaussee

"Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life."
- George Arliss

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
- Kahlil Gibran

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one."
- Elbert Hubbard

"It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail."
- Peter Marshall

"It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey."
- Soren Kierkegaard

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."
- John W. Gardner

"Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all."
- William Temple

"I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go, I will counsel you and watch over you."
- Psalm 32:8

"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."
- Lao Tzu

"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."
- Yogi Berra

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."
- Helen Keller

"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government."
- Edmund Burke

"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."
- Frank Herbert

"As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you."
- C. S. Lewis

"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it yet."
- Unknown

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La Marioneta

"La Marioneta" was authored by a Mexican ventriloquist called Johnny Welch as a speech for his puppet.

A beautiful piece to be read and re-read when life deals us difficult hands, when the way forward seems stuck in reverse, when the soul needs a beefing up.

A lot to learn from this puppet.

If for a moment God would forget that I am a rag doll and give me a scrap of life, possibly I would not say everything that I think, but I would definitely think everything that I say.

I would value things not for how much they are worth but rather for what they mean.

I would sleep little, dream more. I know that for each minute that we close our eyes we lose sixty seconds of light.

I would walk when the others loiter; I would awaken when the others sleep.

I would listen when the others speak, and how I would enjoy a good chocolate ice cream.

If God would bestow on me a scrap of life, I would dress simply. I would throw myself flat under the sun, exposing not only my body but also my soul.

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hatred on ice and wait for the sun to come out. With a dream of Van Gogh I would paint on the stars a poem by Benedetti, and a song by Serrat would be my serenade to the moon.

With my tears I would water the roses, to feel the pain of their thorns and the incarnated kiss of their petals… My God, if I only had a scrap of life…

I wouldn’t let a single day go by without saying to people I love, that I love them. I would convince each woman or man that they are my favourites and I would live in love with love.

I would prove to the men how mistaken they are in thinking that they no longer fall in love when they grow old–not knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love. To a child I would give wings, but I would let him learn how to fly by himself. To the old I would teach that death comes not with old age but with forgetting. I have learned so much from you men….

I have learned that everybody wants to live at the top of the mountain without realizing that true happiness lies in the way we climb the slope.

I have learned that when a newborn first squeezes his father’s finger in his tiny fist, he has caught him forever.

I have learned that a man only has the right to look down on another man when it is to help him to stand up. I have learned so many things from you, but in the end most of it will be no use because when they put me inside that suitcase, unfortunately I will be dying.