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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Just wanted to say...


THANKS!

With Thanksgiving upon us this week, we wanted to share some things we are very thankful for. Hope you enjoy the list (in no particular order).*


Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
- Martin Luther


A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
- Henry David Thoreau


To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
- Aldous Huxley


Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
- John Ruskin


Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
- Pablo Picasso


Music is the shorthand of emotion.
- Leo Tolstoy


There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
- Thomas Aquinas


Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
- Buddha


I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.
- Rob Lowe


I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.
- William Tyndale


Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
- Walter Bagehot


Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson


Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
- Norman Cousins


Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead


What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!
- Jamie Oliver


A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer


Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Testimony is as elusive as a moonbeam; it's as fragile as an orchid; you have to recapture it every morning of your life. You have to hold on by study, and by faith, and by prayer.
- Harold B. Lee


Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable...Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.


Sunlight is painting.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne


A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
- Mary Poppins


A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw


Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
- Napoleon Hill


I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
- C.S. Lewis


I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
- Claude Monet


I don't know if it's just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock.
- Picabo Street


A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
- Ansel Adams


My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt


Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
- Langston Hughes


It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow





*This list could go on and on, but we are so very thankful for life and everything that comes with it. We hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving!

4 comments:

Mary said...

Of all the Thanksgiving posts around the blogosphere, yours was one of my favorites. Thanks. :)

Penelope Celeste said...

Reading the quotes you posted and all the people who said/wrote them is proof of your ability to be a Humanities professor. =)

I'm so grateful for you Kris! I love you so much and hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Penn xox

Cullen said...

Thanks for the uber-great quotes. This post had several levels to think about!

Jen Holtkamp said...

love love love these quotes! happy thanksgiving to you guys too! :)