"All that I have seen readies me to trust

the Creator I have not seen."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our  lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living."

Simone De Beauvoir

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."

Helen Keller

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.  And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

Martha Graham

"It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him.  Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world.  Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create."

Leo Tolstoy

"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."

George Eliot

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

Helen Keller

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.  And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding , will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

Philippians 4:6-7

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."

Anne Frank

The following is a sampling of the hundreds of quotes I have collected over the years.  These words move and inspire me.  I hope they might do the same for you.

"Dark as my path may seem to others, I carry a magic light in my heart.  Faith illuminates the way.  Although doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid toward the Enchanted Wood where the foliage is always green; where joy abides; and where life and death are one in the presence of the Lord."

Helen Keller

No coward soul is mine.

No trembler in the world's

Storm -troubled sphere:

I see Heaven's glories shine.

And faith shines equal,

Arming me from fear.

Emily Jane Brontë

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

Antoine de Saint--Exupéry