"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."

-- Frederick Douglass

#Heartbroken Quotes #Letting Go Quotes #Meaningful Quotes

“No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 06, 2015
“When faced with defeat, rise to your feet!”
“I looked over at her; if women knew how good they looked in the dash light of oversized pickup trucks, they'd never get out of them.”

Source : Craig Johnson (2013). “The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set”, p.336, Penguin
“Whatever adventure you are into, whatever you are doing, your attention should be on your spirit.”
“I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.”

Source : Richard John Neuhaus (2001). “Death on a Friday Afternoon: Meditations on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross”, p.9, Basic Books
“The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.”

Source : Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com
“What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!”

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