poems for sisters birthday

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God. ~Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: An Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh, 1937



I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx



Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God. ~Krishnamacharya



One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way. ~Vincent Van Gogh



We borrowed golf from Scotland as we borrowed whiskey. Not because it is Scottish, but because it is good. ~Horace Hutchinson



Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever. ~Author Unknown



There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid. ~Frederick W. Cropp



Successful enterprises are usually led by a proven chief executive who is a competent benevolent dictator. ~Richard Pratt



Nothing is worth more than this day. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today. ~Harold MacMillan



A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin



You can't lose weight by talking about it. You have to keep your mouth shut. ~Author Unknown



Fame - the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name. ~Rainer Maria Rilke



Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ~Bill Vaughn



If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen -sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved. ~Pierre Loti



People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. ~Linda Ellerbee



We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. ~Honore de Balzac



We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. ~Cullen Hightower



History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves. ~George Macaulay Trevelyan



It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it. ~From the television show The Golden Girls