A GARDEN OF THOUGHTS

A GARDEN OF THOUGHTS

Pick a few

And make your own bouquet

My mind is a garden. My thoughts are the seeds. My harvest will be either flower or weeds. Mel Weldon

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. George MacDonald

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. John Milton

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. John Bunyan

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Martin Luther King

Don't regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. Unknown

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. Erin Majors

Don't cut your conscience to fit this year's fashions. Lillian Hellman

Beware the barrenness of a busy life. Socrates

There must be more to life than having everything. Maurice Sendak

They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing. Hindu Proverb

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mohandas Ghandi

Old age, to the unlearned, is winter; to the learned, it’s harvest time. Yiddish Saying

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. Clarence Darrow

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. Corrie Ten Boom

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey

He left a world he was were of with the cool indifference you quit a dirty inn to continue your journey to a place you hope for better accommodation. Lady Mary Wortley Montague (letter) July 11 1759

PRAYER FOR LIFE’S JOURNEY

O God, Who has commanded that no man should be idle, give us grace to employ all our talents and faculties in the service appointed to us; that, whatsoever our hand finds to do, we may do it with our might. Cheerfully may we go on in the road which you have marked out, not desiring too earnestly that it should be either more smooth or more wide; but daily seeking our way by Your light, may we trust ourselves and the issue of our journey, to You the Fountain of Joy, and sing songs of praise as we go along. Then, O Lord, receive us at the gate of life, which You hast opened for us... We ask this in Your precious Name and Mercy