M.J. Stoddard Quotes
Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.
This may shock you, but the most important person in your life is you. You are meant to be 'full of yourself.
Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.
There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again.
A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?
We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.
Finding your personal style is a rich journey of discovery, wonder, adventure, and excitement.
Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.
Don't try to prove anything about yourself to anyone. It isn't necessary. Your worth shines through to others- know your worth.
There is no death. The thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life.
There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time.
Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!
We have two lives about us,Two worlds in which we dwell,Within us and without us,Alternate Heaven and Hell:-Without, the somber Real,Within, our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal.
Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.
Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands, Like a new Niobe with claspèd hands, Silent above the flowers, her children lost, Slain by the arrows of the early Frost.
Puttering is really a time to be alone, to dream, to get in touch with yourself...To putter is to discover.
With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?
Our painful experiences strengthen us in becoming more empathetic, more caring, and deeper human beings. We grow in depth of understanding, with greater appreciation for the miracle of life.
The difference between living and half living is seeing well, looking for associations between things, seeking the connections, being aware of scale and proportion.
What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all of our tomorrows.
We choose how enthusiastically we live our time alive.
Every stimulus becomes an opportunity to find fresh ways to express your personal vision.
Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.
Work is an opportunity to bring something forth-to create something, complete something, invent something authentic and original.
Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think; Wine, I know, was made to drink.
If no one ever deviated from currently accepted mainstream Science - we would still have the Flat Earth Society!
Pursuing your dreams in spite of opposition is a revolution against mediocrity. By challenging yourself, you transform those around you.
An author's dream does not necessarily come instantly. Rather, it is cultivated and nurtured, every epiphany and idea are like rain drops that bring life to the story being written.
I want to fill my mind with life-enhancing, positive, beautiful memories. The dark experiences can remain buried without a funeral.
The difference between going where you are needed and going where you are called is purely based upon diligent prayer and the leading of the Holy Spirit.
The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.
Our lives are made up of time, and the quality of our existence depends on our wise use of the moments we are given.
