For those of you who are regular readers of this blog, you know how much I love quotes. I look for them everywhere. To me, they’re like finding a little jewel on the sidewalk. I put it in my pocket, walk away and delight in it later. The best of quotes seem to capture something about their author that you don’t get from reading one of their books. Not necessarily better, but qualitatively different. Sort of like the difference between a movie and a photograph. They draw different things out of us.
Here are some good ones I’ve recently come across for your enrichment:
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.
-Rudyard Kipling
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
-Mark Twain
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
-C.S. Lewis
The time is always right to do what is right.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
To laugh often and much; to know the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden path or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
-J.R.R. Tolkien
Now I’m off to a barbecue! Enjoy the beautiful summer weather.