Quotes of Henry Ward Beecher

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The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses — not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. ”

- Dr. Seuss

“ Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ She believed she could so she did. ”

- Unknown

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ Life is an abstract art, and it’s up to you to make sense of it. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Confidence is how we perceive the manifestation of truth in us. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well. ”

- Veronica Roth

“ We werent exactly lovers yet, But we were a little more then friends. We just kept meeting at the wrong time, but our connection never ends. ”

- Nikki Rowe

“ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ My poetry has been engraved with your name And my heart is by your memory scarred ”

- Zubair Ahsan

“ Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins ”

- Mitch Albom

“ There is nothing higher than love, and nothing lower than ignorance. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ The way you handle fear determines the results you have in life. If you are equipped with knowledge, you can overcome fear ”

- H. J. Chammas

“ Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. ”

- Joan Crawford

“ How can I put the Auras back in the chest?” I asked, terror boiling inside my stomach. “You can’t. Not if those that were or will be struck by them won’t be eager to express their feelings and let you help them. You do not change people, dearie. It’s the people that change themselves. You’re the Guardian, but they’re the bearers,” the Oracle whispered. “I’m no Guardian. I’m doomed!” I said and I knew that this was true. ”

- Victoria Moschou

“ Life is good! It is only our thoughts, choices and actions towards the situations we meet in life each moment of time that makes life look bad! The same bad situation in life that makes one person think badly inspires another to do a noble thing! The same good situation in life that makes one person feel so good to get into a bad situation inspires another person to create another good situation because of the good situation. It is all about thoughts, choices and actions! Life is good! Live it well! ”

- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“ To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Enmity builds walls; love builds bridges. Enlightenment is the highway to world peace. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Numbers by popular consensus don’t make a wrong thing right, and if you are misunderstood for being right, don’t be afraid because they are not yet in the right time zone. ”

- Erwin D. Maramat

“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”

- Lenora Porch