encouraging quotes for hard times

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. ~William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways



When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse. ~Lord Byron



Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley



Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed. ~Charles Schulz, Peanuts



Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices. ~Edgar Argo



The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty. ~John Waters



Quilters know all the angles. ~Author Unknown



Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. ~John W. Gardner



Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ~Jessamyn West



The mind is the most capricious of insects - flitting, fluttering. ~Virginia Woolf



Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. ~Steven Weinberg



In every Heart...awaits Your Angel. ~Michael, @WhereAngelsCome



What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. ~Bertolt Brecht, Jungle of Cities, 1924



The dog is the only animal that has seen his god. ~Author Unknown



The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us. ~Woodrow Wilson



Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. ~Adlai Stevenson



Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world. ~Ada Louise Huxtable



Your heart knows your song, but you have to be willing to listen to the words. ~Sue Rock, http://sue215.blogspot.com