"Life is lived forward, but understood backward. It is not until we are down the road and we stand on the mountain looking back through the valley that we can appreciate the terrain God has allowed us to scale.” Jill Savage

Monday, October 08, 2007

I'm a quote-a-holic and I've been saving them up. Thought I'd send some inspiration your way.

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks.
-Jack Penn

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'
-Grace Murray Hopper

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
-Pete Seeger

The only difference between stumbling blocks and steppingstones is the way in which we use them.
-Unknown

Each day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
-Charles Swindoll

When the student is ready, the teacher appears.
-Tao saying

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
-Warren Buffet

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-Mother Teresa

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
-Charlotte Bronte

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
-Erin Majors

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You must love fortune cookies. Lots of wisdom in those things.