Devotional 5-13-11

Tea Time

The makers of Celestial Seasonings tea include an interesting, often inspirational, quote on most boxes of their teas. Over the years, I have saved many for just such an occasion as this. So grab yourself a cup of tea and enjoy.

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.--Oscar Wilde

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.--Tennyson
Ultimately time is all you have, and the idea isn't to save it, but to savor it.--Ellen Goodman

We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character.--Seneca

Fill the cup of happiness for others, and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.--Rose Pastor Stokes

The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.--Robert Leighton

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.--Sarah Ban Breathnach

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.--Rabindranath Tagore

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.--Galileo

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?--Jean-Jaques Rousseau

He who forgives ends the argument.--African Proverb

A gem cannot be polished without friction nor a man perfected without trials.--Chinese Proverb

Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, as do you.--T.A. Barron

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.--Dorothy Nevill

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.--Meister Eckhart

Anita Gardner Farrell