The secret to having a great conversation is listening. - Donald Miller
Little House on the Ridge
a place for quotes about life, faith and learning
Reading
Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss. - Nora Ephron
Every Day
Every day God calls us to keep trusting --- to get out of bed and spend another 24 hours washing dishes, doing laundry, loving our family, believing he has everything under control --- even when He seems silent. - Vera Gilmor
Feelings
And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself because I could find no language to describe them in. - Jane Austen
Rising
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Nelson Mandela
Silence
So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me because I, too, am fluent in silence. - R. Arnold
With You
I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. - Arwen Undomiel
Possibilities
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't. - Thomas Edison
Freedom
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right. - Peter Marshall
Reading and Naps
Reading and naps, two of life's greatest pleasures, go especially well together. - Will Schwalbe, Books for Living
The Centre of Worship
I believe some Christians today have forgotten that worship is not for them. It is for the Lord. Worship is not meant to please me, to make me feel good, to meet my criteria, my standards, my tastes. Worship is for God. I am not to be at the center of worship. - John Phelan Jr
Walk
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right. - Soren Kierkegaard
Fingerprints
It will be gone before you know it. The fingerprints on the wall will appear higher and higher, and then suddenly they disappear. - Dorothy Evslin
Night
Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow. - Allen Ginsberg
Trees
There's a quiet kind of magic in the way life feels lighter when the trees are wearing their leaves again. - Avellino Farms
The Power of Prayer
Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference. - Max Lucado
What You Have
Think how joyous each and every day can be if you're making the most of what you have. - Chrissy Halton
Noticing
I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling, puttering. I love the times when someone or something is later --- there's that rich possibility of noticing more, in the meantime. - Naomi Shihab
Public Libraries
I love public libraries because they're built on the principle that books are so important and so necessary to human flourishing that access to them cannot depend on your income. - Author Unknown
Amazing Things
Amazing things are all around me, appearing ordinary at first, until I really look at them closely. - Joanne Ryder
In the Kitchen
Many happy childhood memories begin in the kitchen. It's one of the sweetest parts of childhood. - Deanna F. Cook
Simplicity
But writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that impossible prose is a hallmark of intelligence. - Alain de Botton, The Consultations of Philosophy
Little Bits of Good
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. - Desmond Tutu
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