Al Smith Quotes
We may not be able to control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react.
I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.
Perhaps we are not really sinners in the hands of an angry God, after all. Perhaps we are all more like seedlings in the hands of a wise gardener.
If you truly love someone, have the faith to 'let them go.' Encourage them to be the fullest measure of themselves, and you will be overwhelmed by the love that your spouse returns to you.
Life is less about finding and more about seeking.
A bruised apple is not all bad. It still has tremendous potential.
Marriage should liberate, not incarcerate. Real love shouldn't limit a person's potential, it should expand it.
Abandon the idea that you will forever be the victim of the things that have happened to you. Choose to be a victor.
You are worth infinitely more than you could possibly imagine.
There's nothing more important in this world than caring for a child.
People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices.
What can be added to the happiness of man who is in health out of debt and has a clear conscience?
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
We should gather all the good and true principles in the world and treasure them up, or we shall not come out true Mormons.
Here they have no time for the fine gracesof poetry, unless it freely growsin deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven into the texture of the soilin a strong pattern.
I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.
Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.
He looks at her and smiles. "You're sort of dangerous, you know?" She stares at him. "Me?" "Yeah, " he says sitting back. "I'm way too honest with you.
Is it possible not to ever know your type-not to even know you have a type-until quite suddenly you do?
People Die...Beauty Fades...Love Changes...And You Will Always Be Alone
People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely to fall for each other than people who meet anywhere else.
Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to your. And stay.
There is nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.
Elizabeth: "Your balls, Mr. Darcy?"Darcy: "They belong to you, Miss Bennett.
Sorry, " she said. "I have a psychological disorder that prevents me from keeping thoughts inside my head where they belong.
If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.
The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image.
Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
Even a God finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time.
Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.
That was courage, Keller thought. Not doing something without being afraid, but doing something even though you were afraid.
Exactly. How can you know it makes you happy if you’ve never experienced it?”“There are different kinds of happy, ” she said. “Some kinds don’t need any proof.
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers.
and we laugh and laugh andall I know isat this moment I feel likeI can do anything I wantand be anyone I wantand go anywhere on the globeand still call it home