"Praying helps me see perspectives otherwise beyond me."

-- Lysa TerKeurst

#Perspective Quotes #Helping Quotes #Praying Quotes

“God demonstrates generosity, then asks it from His people.”
“I led by three or four feet, with Biggy (John Biglow) surging closer on each stroke. I hated him in those last few seconds; he was the only reason my guts were being strewn over the water like an oil slick ... I pressed one last time, and looked at the finish-line flagman. In that instant the flag jumped down and then up. The up stroke, identifying the second place finisher, was for me. John Biglow was the victor. I stared into the green-brown water watching my bloody soul drop through the depths, slowly rocking back and forth, occasionally glinting in the light, and then finally disappearing.”
“I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able.”

Source : Maxfield Parrish, Alma Gilbert-Smith, Joyce Stoner, Trust for Museum Exhibitions (2005). “Maxfield Parrish: master of make-believe”, Philip Wilson Publishers
“Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
“And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow which followed her like her own shadow, which stopped when she stopped, which started again when she did and which made no more noise than a well-conducted shadow should.”
“Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves.”
“Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.”
“Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.”

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