“There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.” — William Barclay Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_life.html
Tag Archives: thought for today
Friends with Chocolate
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” ― Linda Grayson
Saving the Soul of the Nation
“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved I believe that you must become it’s soul.” — Coretta Scott King, Author, Activist, Civil Rights Leader.
You Cannot Soar
“As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.” — Marian Anderson, African-American contralto
To That You Were Called
“If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road – abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To that you were called.” — Elisabeth Elliot
Demon of Destruction
“Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.” – Lillian Wald, reformer and peace activist, 1914
The Most Difficult Thing…
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.” —Amelia Earhart (1897-1937, when she disappeared)
The Work of Today
“The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.” — Juliette Gordon Low, Founder of the Girl Scouts https://www.rd.com/culture/womens-history-quotes/
Nothing is Impossible
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” — Audrey Hepburn
Part of Success
“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes — understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” — Arianna Huffington
