LIFE – and words to help deal with it whatever your gender…
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Finds us farther than to-day.
Trust no Future, however pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, act, in the living Present!
Heart within, and God overhead!
– Longfellow.
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Our acts make or mar us,–we are the children of our own deeds.– Victor Hugo.
Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.– Beecher.
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.–Willis.
God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments.– T. L.Cuyler.
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.– Phillips Brooks.
Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of an angry man.– Plutarch.
He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not.–Seneca.
Men in rage strike those that wish them best.– Shakespeare.
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.– W.R. Alger.
A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.– Ruskin
A man who is proud of small things shows that small things are great to him. — Madame de Girardin
He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.– Auerbach.
Who escapes a duty avoids a gain.–Theodore Parker.
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