But these are mere fanciful wishes I'll send you a Godspeed instead, and I'll clasp your hand - then you'll understand all the things I have left unsaid.~W. I should like to send you the power that nothing can overthrow - the power to smile and laugh the while a-journeying through life you go. I should like to send you the dew-drops that glisten at the break of day, and then at night the eerie light that mantles the Milky Way. I should like to send you the essence of a myriad sun-kissed flowers, or the lilting song, as it floats along, of a brook through fairy bowers. Scott, as quoted in Forbes, 1932įriend o' Mine: I should like to send you a sunbeam, or the twinkle of some bright star, or a tiny piece of the downy fleece that clings to a cloud afar. The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. Dayton Wegefarth (1885–1973), "The Bright Things of Life" Will illumine our hearts with the glorious light ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, 1997, translated by Jakob HaarhuisĪ mere word of cheer, in the shadow of night, It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. ~Miyazawa Kenji, unverifiedĪdversity is like a strong wind. We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. We look very small, but the reed can carry weight. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Considerations By the Way," The Conduct of Life, 1860 All the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity, to draw thence new nobilities of power. Without war, no soldier without enemies, no hero. We acquire the strength we have overcome. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. The sharpest evils are bent into that periodicity which makes the errors of planets, and the fevers and distempers of men, self-limiting. There is a tendency in things to right themselves. Wars, fires, plagues, break up immovable routine. The frost which kills the harvest of a year, saves the harvests of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust. The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief. ~Author unknown, modification of an anonymous quotation from around the 1940s Ī bend in the road is not the end of the road - unless you fail to make the turn. If you're going through hell, keep on going. ~Flavia Marie Register Weedn (1929–2015), Flavia and the Dream Maker, 1988, If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Edmund Hillary, as quoted in The Reader's Digest, 1993 It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. There should be no tear on your cheek, dear, had my hand the access to brush it away. ~Ivy Baker Priest, as quoted in Herbert R. The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Last Days in Cloudland," Oldtown Folks, 1869 When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide 'll turn. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Seven Seventy Seven Sensations, 1897 ~Author unknownįall seven times, stand up eight. When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. You ride off into the sunset and discover it's the sunrise. ~Fernando Sabino, translated from Portuguese When you get to your wits' end, you will find that God lives there. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on! ~Author unknown, 1920s Hang in There Quotes, Sayings of Support and Encouragement The Quote Garden ™
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