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Quotes for the WEEKEND

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.
Donald Cargill

Belief creates the actual fact.
William James

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Thomas Merton

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
William Ellery Channing

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
Wallis Simpson

Give light and people will find the way.
Ella Baker

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
Jim Elliot

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
Arthur Young

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Friedrich Schiller

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks

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