Sunday, October 24, 2010

Recent Favorite Quotes

After reading a series of books filled with wonderful quotes from various sources, I determined to put together a few of my favorites.



If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.



Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.



God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.



Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one."



Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.



The above are from C.S. Lewis.



You're confusing what is important with what is impressive.- L.M. Montgomery



The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.- St. Augustine



When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.- Erasmus



Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.- Mark Twain

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