And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. Jun 18, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. Jun 18, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string. Jun 18, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises. Jun 18, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things. Jun 18, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. Jun 18, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...They don't find it," I answered.And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."Of course," I answered.And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart. Jun 18, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. Jun 18, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. Jun 18, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. Jun 18, 2024 - Fabian Biese>