Great And Inspiring Quotations, Sayings, Verses

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found by accident. - Charles Lamb

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiam. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some of the hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured
From the evils that never arrived!
        - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blessed is the man who can enjoy the small things, the common beauties, the little day-by-day events; sunshine on the fields, birds on the bough, breakfast, dinner, supper, the daily paper on the porch, a friend passing by. So many people who go afield for enjoyment leave it behind at home. - David Grayson

The real test of a happy life is to see how much pain and loss and frustration can be endured and absorbed without spoiling the joy of it. - Rufus M. Jones

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Circumstances and situations do colour life, but you have been given the mind to choose what the colour shall be. - John Homer Miller

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. - Janet Lane

As yesterday is history, and tomorrow may never come, I have resolved from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly. - Robert Louis Stevenson

The more you love, the more you'll find
That life is good and friends are kind
For only what we give away
Enriches us from day to day.
      - Helen Steiner Rice

Fate used me meanly but I looked at her and laughed,
That none might know how bitter was the cup I quaffed.
Along came Joy, and paused beside me where I sat,
Saying, 'I came to see what you were laughing at.'
     - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The sky is that beautiful ol parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. - Alfred Kreymborg

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The wind will flow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. - John Muir

If spring came but once in a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow