Category: Quotes

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

Albert Einstein (renowned physicist)

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

C. S. Lewis

No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him. But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2:9-10.

“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. I will be found by you,” says the Lord. “I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land.” Jeremiah 29:11-14.

Some quotes and thoughts worth thinking about:

• "The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation." Pearl S. Buck
• "Life is an exciting business and most exciting when lived for others." Helen Keller. 
• "Today's newspaper with your name and picture on it will line the bottom of someone's birdcage tomorrow!" Unknown
• "Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time." Eleanor Roosevelt
• "We have made at least a start in discovering the meaning of human life when we plant shade trees under which we know full well we will never sit." Elton Trueblood
• "I can do what you cannot do and you can do what I cannot do. Together we can do great things." Mother Theresa
• "Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. Think well." Danielle Pierre
• "Anyone who can still do at 60 what he was doing at 20 wasn't doing much at 20." Jimmy Townsend
• "It took me all of my life to learn the biggest music lesson of all – what not to play." Dizzy Gillespie
• "Twenty-five years ago I wish someone had told me about the exponential factor of time: that every year over forty years of age goes twice as fast, and every year over fifty goes ten times as fast." Harold Evans
• Serenity Prayer: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference." Reinhold Niebuhr
• Humorous Serenity Prayer: "God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked, the good fortune to run into the ones that I do, and the eyesight to know the difference." Unknown
• "I never criticise what God is blessing." Rick Warren
• "Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." Psalm 92:10

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Some quotes and thoughts worth thinking about:

• "Aging allows us to separate the important from the unimportant, to appreciate more and reach for less, and to allow those who are younger to step up to the plate and learn their lessons." John Maxwell
• "The seven ages of a man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, wills." Richard J. Needam
• "When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed." Quincy Jones
• "A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives." Jackie Robinson
• "I still find each day too short: for all the thoughts I want to think, for all the walks I want to take, for all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see." John Burroughs
• "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." John Maxwell
• "If you make every game a matter of life and death … you'll be dead a lot." Basketball Coach Dean Smith
• "When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, its time to turn the lights out." George Burns
• "The success of my day is determined by the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap." John Maxwell
• "You need three things in life to be happy: someone to love, something to do and something to look forward to." Kenny Rogers
• "By the time you reach 80 years of age, you have learned everything. You only have to remember it." George Burns
• "The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." Muhammad Ali
• "Life is like driving a car. It's wise to check the rear-view mirror now and then, but the rear-view mirror is only there to glance at, not to stare at. Staring at where you've been will only land you in a ditch." John Maxwell
• "My remnant of days I spend to His praise who died the whole world to redeem; be they many or few, my days are his due, and they all are devoted to him." John Wesley

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There were once four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.

There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.

Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.

Now Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job.

Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn't do it.

It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from – my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.”

C.S. Lewis in Till We Have Faces