Friday's Quotes | Food for Weekend Thought and Reflection

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Friday Quote Collection July 6th, 2012
FRIDAY'S QUOTATIONS - "Food For Weekend Thought" Assembled by R. VARGA

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"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you've got."
- Emile August Chartier

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
- James M. Barrie

"It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand. That's the way things become clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."
- Madeleine L'Engle

"Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen."
- Ephesians 4:29

"The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state."
- John Kenneth Galbraith

"Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important."
- C. S. Lewis

"The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right."
- William Safire

"What you don’t know about yourself can put a lid on your leadership."
- Andy Stanley

"Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks."
- Thomas Goodwin

"Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy."
- Marshall Field

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
- Annie Dillard

"The degree to which I am blessed staggers me... the degree to which I take that for granted shames me."
- John Green

"There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."
- Sam Levenson

"We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector," said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we count?"
- Louise Penny

"We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable."
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass."
- Edgar R. Fiedle

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
- Robert Green Ingersoll

"The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats."
- Ayn Rand

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TRUST…

A little girl and her father were crossing a bridge.

The father was kind of scared so he asked his little daughter:

"Sweetheart, please hold my hand so that you don't fall into the river." The little girl said:

"No, Dad. You hold my hand."

"What's the difference?" Asked the puzzled father.

"There's a big difference," replied the little girl.

"If I hold your hand and something happens to me, chances are that I may let your hand go. But if you hold my hand, I know for sure that no matter what happens, you will never let my hand go."

In any relationship, the essence of trust is not in its bind, but in its bond. So hold the hand of the person whom you love rather than expecting them to hold yours...