Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

Henry Ward Beecher

But the man who dares to live his life with death before his eyes, the man who receives life back bit by bit and lives as though it did not belong to him by right but has been bestowed on him as a gift, the man who has such freedom and peace of mind that he has overcome death in his thoughts--such a man believes in eternal life because it is already his, it is a present experience, and he already benefits from its peace and joy. He cannot describe this experience in words. He may not be able to conform his view with the traditional picture of it. But one thing he knows for certain: Something within us does not pass away, something goes on living and working wherever the kingdom of the spirit is present. It is already working and living within us, because in our hearts we have been able to reach life by overcoming death.source: http://home.pcisys.net/~jnf/schauth/rq8.html

Albert Schweitzer, Reverence For

In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Alfred A. Montapert

Put your trust in God but be sure to keep your powder dry.

Oliver Cromwell

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Andre Gide

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

Charlotte Bronte

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

Paul McCartney

Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

George R.R. Martin

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

Alice Walker

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

Mahatma Gandhi

When a man loves you, you can tell by the way he touches you. His hands that have been lifting heavy objects all day turn into sensitive hands that will never hurt you.

Jessica Bascom

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Pythagoras