Quotation Saturday

GIFT

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer

“Hydrogenated and androgynous milky white love is all I have to offer you. Would you like me to pour it in your coffee, or directly into your soul?
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~ Jarod Kintz

“A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.”
~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.”
~ Frederick William Faber

WISDOM

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
~ Mark Twain

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
~ Aristotle

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
~ Alexandre Dumas

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
~ Aristotle, Metaphysics

LOVE

“To love others you must first love yourself.”
~ Leo Buscaglia, Love

“When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience.”
~ N.T. Wright

“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
~ Homer, The Iliad

“I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist.”
~ David Levithan