"Beautiful things don't ask for attention."
-The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (movie)
"If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved."
-Romans 10:9
"You say, 'I am allowed to do anything' -but not everything is good for you..."
-1 Corinthians 10:23
"...'I remember the devotion of your youth,
how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown.'"
-Jeremiah 2:2
"The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, He will show you a way out so that you can endure."
-Corinthians 10:13
"You can't sit there and put everyone's life before your own and call that love."
-Sam, "Perks of Being a Wallflower" (movie/book)
sidenote: I don't mean to condone selfishness with this quote, only to advocate taking time to take care of the body, mind, and spirit God gave you to fully glorify Him. You have to be of sound mind and body to truly love others.
"For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
its always ourselves we find in the sea"
-E.E. Cummings, "maggy and milly and molly and may" (poem)
sidenote: from my favorite poet, I might add
"For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power."
-1 Corinthians 4:20
"Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope."
-Romans 5:3,4
"…And a person with a changed heart seeks praise from God, not from people."
-Romans 2:29
"Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure…"
-Philippians 2:14-15
"And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to death-even death on a cross!"
-Philippians 2:8
"If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it is sin for them."
-James 4:17
"So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing."
-1 Thessalonians 5:11
"Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Helen Keller, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
- Jackson Brown Jr.
"Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry."
-James 1:19
“Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it."
-Nikola Tesla
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