"I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and "wisdom" and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents."

-- Gary Gygax

#Thinking Quotes #Grandparent Quotes #Wish Quotes

“I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.”

Source : Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.83, St. Martin's Press
“If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain. Do you want to become a great saint? Ask God to send you many sufferings. The flame of Divine Love never rises higher than when fed with the wood of the Cross, which the infinite charity of the Savior used to finish His sacrifice. All the pleasures of the world are nothing compared with the sweetness found in the gall and vinegar offered to Jesus Christ. That is, hard and painful things endured for Jesus Christ and with Jesus Christ.”
“The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.”
“I played so perfect, I couldn't play more perfect.”
“When I first moved to L.A., I thought about turning gay. Then I realized none of the guys I was interested in was good enough for me.”
“The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and laboriously compiled, is made the instrument of man's destruction.”

Source : Leonard Wibberley (1920). “The Mouse That Roared”, Turtleback
“You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.”
“For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy reads: 'Though goodness without knowledge . . . is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous. . . . Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind.'”

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