Berpikir Bijaksana

Yakobus 1:5
Tetapi apabila di antara kamu ada yang kekurangan hikmat, hendaklah ia memintakannya kepada Allah, yang memberikan kepada semua orang dengan murah hati dan dengan tidak membangkit-bangkit, maka hal itu akan diberikan kepadanya.

Seorang pemburu pergi ke hutan membawa busur dan tombak. Di balik pohon dia menunggu sasarannya sambil berkhayal pulang membawa seekor rusa. Tak lama menunggu, seekor kelelawar besar yang kesiangan hinggap di pohon di depan si pemburu, namun ia mengabaikannya. Tidak lama, seekor babi lewat dan berhenti di sampingnya. Pemburu itu menggerutu berharap babi itu segera pergi.

Setelah agak lama pemburu menunggu, tiba-tiba terdengar langkah kaki binatang. Ia mulai siaga, tapi ternyata... hanya seekor kijang. Iapun membiarkannya lewat. Baru setelah sore, rusa yang ditunggu lewat. Rusa itu sempat berhenti di depan pemburu, tapi sang pemburu sedang tertidur. Ketika rusa itu hampir menginjaknya, ia kaget. Spontan ia berteriak, "Rusa!" sehingga rusapun kaget dan lari sebelum ia menombaknya. Alhasil ia pulang tanpa membawa apa-apa.

Banyak orang mempunyai idealisme terlalu besar untuk memperoleh yang diinginkannya. Tawaran dan kesempatan-kesempatan kecil dilewati begitu saja, tanpa pernah berpikir bahwa mungkin di dalamnya ia memperoleh sesuatu berharga. Tidak jarang orang-orang seperti itu akhirnya tidak mendapatkan apa-apa.

Berpikir sederhana, bukan berarti tanpa logika yang sehat. Tapi ingatlah bahwa Tuhan mengajarkan kita setia pada perkara-perkara kecil lebih dulu sebelum dipercayakan perkara yang besar. Dengan penuh hikmat, marilah kita belajar berpikir bijak sebelum mengambil keputusan.

Orang bijak dapat melihat sesuatu yang berharga dalam setiap kesempatan yang ada.

Jadilah Bijak

Yeremia 2:30
“Sia-sia Aku telah memukuli anak-anakmu, hajaran tidaklah mereka terima”

Bacaan Alkitab Setahun: Mazmur 7; Matius 7; 2 Raja-Raja 3-4

Bangsa Israel berkali-kali mengabaikan didikan Allah (Yeremia 2:30). Tuhan merasa sedih karena bangsa Israel tidak mau mengakui kesalahan dan mengubah cara hidup mereka.

Saya pernah bertemu dengan para orangtua yang patah hati melihat perilaku anak-anak mereka. Karena itu, sungguh melegakan ketika mendengar seorang pendeta muda yang pada upacara pemakaman ayahnya mengungkapkan ucapan syukur dan hormat atas koreksi-koreksi kesalahan yang pernah dilakukan orangtuanya.

Pendeta muda itu menceritakan bahwa ketika masih remaja, ia pernah ditangkap polisi karena melempar batu ke sebuah tempat yang dapat mencelakakan dirinya sendiri. Polisi itu memberitahu ayahnya jika ia mampu mendisiplinkan anaknya, maka anak itu tidak perlu dimasukkan ke lembaga pengawasan anak nakal.

Pendeta muda itu masih ingat, dari wajah sang ayah tersirat bahwa sebenarnya ayahnya lebih suka menyerahkannya ke lembaga tersebut. Namun, hal itu tidaklah menyakiti hatinya karena ia tahu bahwa ayahnya sungguh-sungguh mencintainya. Ketika semakin dewasa, pendeta muda itu mulai menunjukkan perubahan ke arah yang baik. Bahkan, ia mengaku kini telah menjadi orang yang bertanggung jawab dan perubahan yang terjadi dalam hidupnya semua berkat didikan sang ayah yang dikasihinya.

Tidak jadi masalah apakah koreksi itu berasal dari Tuhan, orangtua, atau dari pihak lain, karena hasilnya nanti ditentukan oleh respon kita. Ingatlah, “Siapa mengabaikan didikan membuang dirinya sendiri, tetapi siapa mendengarkan teguran, memperoleh akal budi” (Amsal 15:32).

Terimalah koreksi dari orang-orang di sekitar Anda karena lambat laun koreksi untuk Anda akan terus berkurang.

Kumpulan kata-kata bijak kristen

Kumpulan kata-kata hikmat, kata-kata penghiburan


Jarak paling jauh antara masalah dengan solusi hanyalah sejauh lutut dengan lantai. Orang yang berlutut pada Tuhan bisa berdiri untuk melakukan apapun !

Iman yang kecil bilang: Tuhan bisa melakukannya.
Iman yang besar bilang: Tuhan akan melakukannya.
Tapi iman yang dahsyat bilang: Sudah dilakukan!

If GOD leads you to the edge of cliff, trust HIM fully. One or two things will happen, either HE will catch you when you fall, or HE will teach you how to fly

Hidup bisa memberi kita 100 alasan buat menangis, tapi Tuhan memberi kita 1000 alasan untuk tersenyum.

Cinta bisa buat orang bahagia; uang bisa buat dunia berputar; tapi sahabat... ah, itu yang buat hidup lebih hidup.

God is too wise that He created friends without "price tags" coz if He did, I can't afford to buy a luxalary expensive friend like "U"

Penyesalan sehari bila masak nasi menjadi bubur, penyesalan sebulan bila salah potong rambut, penyesalan setahun bila tidak lulus, penyesalan seumur hidup bila salah pilih pasangan hidup, penyesalan selamanya bila salah pilih JURU SELAMAT. Maka janganlah pindah ke iman yang lain selain Tuhan Yesus.

Sejauh mana engkau mau Tuhan campur tangan dalam hidupmu, maka sejauh itulah Dia akan campur tangan dalam hidupmu...

Seorang Sahabat Menaruh Kasih Setiap waktu dan menjadi Saudara dalam Kesukaran.

Tuhan selalu ngasih harapan pada yang ngga menyerah, mujizat pada yang percaya dan Dia nggak ninggalin mereka yang berjalan bersamaNya.

Ukuran bagi Allah sudah jelas, jika anda tidak memiliki hutang, anda lebih kaya dari orang yang memiliki hutang,Titik.

Allah adalah seperti seorang pandai besi yang sedang membuat pedang.
pedangnya adalah kita

Di dalam hidup ini kita akan banyak menemui kegagalan karena itulah yang namanya hidup...
Namun, dari kegagalan itu kita dapat belajar terus untuk meperoleh keberhasilan...
Orang yang gagal adalah orang yang takut dan tidak pernah mencoba untuk melakukan segala sesuatu karena takut akan kegagalan itu sendiri...

Best Job In The World

I've been a mom (mother) for over 15 years now, and along with gaining spider veins, 25 pounds, and a few dozen worry wrinkles, I've also gained knowledge.

For instance, I learned a major lesson when my darling daughter, age 3, put her peanut butter sandwich in the VCR slot. It seemed she wanted to "watch" her lunch instead of "Little Mermaid". Trust me... VCR's do not eject Peanut Butter Sandwiches!

In the twelve years since that sticky incident, I've also learned the following gems of wisdom:

1. A new mom really can get by on 3 hours and seventeen minutes of sleep per night. You could use the bags under your eyes to pack for a cruise, but at least the sweet smell of poopy diapers can act as smelling salts to revive you.

2. If it's 2am and your toddler whines, "Mommy, my tummy hurts!", you have three seconds to react before his stomach contents wind up on your pillow case.

3. A two year old can stuff half a purple crayon up his nose in the time it takes to tie your 4-year-old's shoe.

4. Your proudly potty-trained 3-yr-old will always have to "go" after she's bundled into long underwear, pants, and a snow suit.

5. A mom can have a 102 degree fever, hacking cough, and horrible rash, but she still has to make supper, make a cover for a 6th grade Science book, and take a sliver out of an 8-year-old's finger.

6. If head lice is invading your son's class, he'll pick that day to borrow Josh's comb (even though he usually never combs his hair).

7. A teenager may call your jokes lame -- but she usually repeats them to her friends.

8. Nothing feels better after a hard day at the office, dentist, or tax accountant, than a big hug and sticky "tootsie roll" kiss from your favorite kid.

9. The best presents are not made of gold or silver, but consist of uncooked macaroni noodles glued to a jar and sprayed with paint.

10. Being a Mom is the best job in the world, and it's truly worth the spider veins, extra pounds and extra wrinkles.

Kata-kata bijak mengenai kegagalan

Kumpulan kata-kata bijak mutiara dan motivasi mengenai kegagalan

“Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind” (Bruce Lee).

“Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it” (Josephus Daniel).

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail” (RalphWaldo Emerson).

“Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.” (Napoleon Bonaparte).

Kenali kesalahan-kesalahan Anda dan belajarlah darinya, namun jangan pernah berkutat di dalamnya.

Orang Bodoh tidak pernah belajar dari kegagalannya.

Orang Pandai belajar dari kegagalan yang ia perbuat dan ia memperbaikinya.

Orang Bijak belajar dari kegagalan orang lain

Cara yang paling pasti untuk menghindari kegagalan adalah dengan tidak mencoba.

Gagal dan Sukses merupakan Satu paket menuju Sukses. Gagal hari ini bisa jadi Sukses Esok Hari.

“Anda dapat melakukannya apabila Anda yakin mampu melakukannya, Anda dapat mengubah nasib Anda (Napoleon Hill”

“Putuskan untuk menjalani kehidupan sepenuh-penuhnya, Anda mungkin hanya tinggal tiga kaki dari emas (Napoleon Hill)”

“Saya tidak pernah menemui kegagalan dalam 10000x percobaan saya menemukan lampu, yang saya temui adalah 10000 bahan itu tidak cocok untuk dijadikan lampu” (Thomas Alfa Edison, penemu Lampu)


“Tidak Belajar Sehari adalah Sebuah Kesalahan”
“Tidak Belajar Seminggu adalah Sebuah Kebodohan”
“Tidak Belajar Setahun adalah Sebuah Kemiskinan dan Kemelaratan”
“Dan TIDAK BELAJAR Seumur Hidup adalah Sebuah Warisan Yang Berbahaya buat Keturunan”

A Piece of Cake

A little boy is telling his grandma how everything is going wrong.....school, family problems, severe health problems, etc. Meanwhile, Grandma is baking a cake. She asks her grandson if he would like a snack,which, of course, he does.

"Here, have some cooking oil."

"Yuck" says the boy.

"How about a couple raw eggs?"

"Gross, Grandma!"

"Would you like some flour then? Or maybe baking soda?"

"Grandma, those are all yucky!"

"Yes, all those things seem bad all by themselves, but when they are put together in the right way, they make a wonderfully delicious cake!

God works the same way. Many times we wonder why he would let us go through such bad and difficult times, but God knows that when He puts these things all in His order, they always work for good!

We just have to trust Him and, eventually, they will all make something wonderful!" God is crazy about you. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning.

Whenever you want to talk, He'll listen. He can live anywhere in the universe, and He chose your heart. If you like, send this on to the people you care about. I did. Hope your day is a "piece of cake!"

Kata-kata bijak tentang Persahabatan

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. ~Author Unknown

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one. ~D.H. Lawrence

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ~C.S. Lewis

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. ~Dorothy Parker

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf

There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. ~Author Unknown

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. ~Author Unknown

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau

A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~Author Unknown

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ~Plautus

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~George MacDonald

A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one. ~Author Unknown

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing

Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?
~Emily Bronte

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand. ~Robert Brault,

Don't

* Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.

* Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you.

* Don’t take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would your life, for without them, life is meaningless.

* Don’t let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live ALL the days of your life.

* Don’t give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

* Don’t be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us each together.

* Don’t be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.

* Don’t shut love out of your life by saying it’s impossible to find. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

* Don’t run through life so fast that you forget not only where you’ve been, but also where you are going.

* Don’t forget that a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

* Don’t be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily.

* Don’t use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.

Setiap Langkah adalah Anugerah

Seorang professor diundang untuk berbicara di sebuah basis militer. Di sana, ia berjumpa dengan seorang prajurit yang tak mungkin dilupakannya, Ralph, penjemputnya di bandara.

Setelah saling memperkenalkan diri, mereka menuju tempat pengambilan bagasi. Ketika berjalan keluar, Ralph sering menghilang. Banyak hal dilakukannya. Ia membantu seorang wanita tua yang kopornya jatuh dan terbuka, kemudian mengangkat dua anak kecil agar mereka dapat melihat sinterklas. Ia juga menolong orang yang tersesat dengan menunjukkan arah yang benar.

Setiap kali, ia kembali ke sisi sang professor dengan senyum lebar menghiasi wajahnya.
Dari mana Anda belajar melakukan semua hal itu ? tanya sang professor.
Melakukan apa ? tanya Ralph.
Dari mana Anda belajar untuk hidup seperti itu ? desak sang professor.
Oh, kata Ralph, selama perang .....
Saya kira, perang telah mengajari saya banyak hal.

Lalu ia menuturkan kisah perjalanan tugasnya di Vietnam . Juga tentang tugasnya saat membersihkan ladang ranjau, dan bagaimana ia harus menyaksikan satu per satu temannya tewas terkena ledakan ranjau di depan matanya.

Saya belajar untuk hidup di antara pijakan setiap langkah. katanya ........
Saya tidak pernah tahu, apakah langkah berikutnya adalah pijakan terakhir, sehingga saya belajar untuk melakukan segala sesuatu yang sanggup saya lakukan tatkala mengangkat dan memijakkan kaki serta mensyukuri langkah sebelumnya.

Setiap langkah yang saya ayunkan merupakan sebuah dunia baru, dan saya kira sejak saat itulah saya menjalani kehidupan seperti ini. Kelimpahan hidup tidak ditentukan oleh berapa lama kita hidup, tetapi sejauh mana kita menjalani kehidupan yang bermakna bagi orang lain.

Nilai manusia .......
tidak ditentukan dengan bagaimana ia mati, melainkan bagaimana ia hidup.
Kekayaan manusia bukan apa yang ia peroleh, melainkan apa yang telah ia berikan.
Selamat menikmati setiap langkah hidup Anda dan BERSYUKURLAH SETIAP SAAT

Banyak orang berpikir bagaimana mengubah dunia ini.
Hanya sedikit yang memikirkan bagaimana mengubah dirinya sendiri..

3 Hal dalam hidup

3 hal dalam hidup yang tak pernah kembali:
1. Waktu
2. Perkataan
3. Kesempatan

Kita tak bisa memutar kembali waktu, tapi kita bisa menciptakan kenangan dengan waktu yang masih kita punya dan memanfaatkan waktu yang ada, walau sebentar, untuk menciptakan kenangan yang berarti^^

Time is free but it's priceless, u can't own it but u can use it. U can't keep it but u can spend it =)

Kita tak bisa menarik ucapan kasar yang keluar dari mulut kita atau statement yang telah membuat harga diri kita lebih penting dari pada menariknya kembali dan mengucapkan maaf.
Kita tak bisa menghapus caci maki yang telah kita katakan hingga membuat orang lain marah, terluka atau menangis.
*Tapi kita bisa membuat apa yang selanjutnya keluar dari mulut kita menjadi lebih banyak pujian dibanding caci maki, lebih banyak syukur dan terima kasih dari pada keluhan atau komplain, dan lebih banyak nasihat positif dari pada sulutan amarah^^

Kita tak bisa mendapatkan kembali kesempatan yang sudah kita lewatkan.
*Tapi kita bisa menciptakan peluang untuk membuat kesempatan-kesempatan lain datang dalam hidup kita dengan lebih memperhatikannya^^


3 hal dalam hidup yang tak boleh hilang:
1. Kehormatan
2. Kejujuran
3. Harapan

Jika kita tidak memiliki uang, dan masih memiliki kehormatan, maka bersyukurlah karena kehormatan merupakan salah satu kekayaan yang masih berharga di mata orang lain.

Jika kita telah kehilangan kehormatan dan ingin memulihkannya, maka pergunakanlah kejujuran untuk meraih kehormatan kita kembali karena orang-orang yang jujur adalah orang-orang yang terhormat.

Jika kita telah kehilangan kehormatan karena ketidakjujuran kita, milikilah harapan bahwa suatu saat mereka akan mengerti alasan dibalik semuanya. Milikilah harapan bahwa kita bisa memperbaiki kehormatan meski dengan susah payah. Milikilah harapan bahwa meski banyak orang yang takkan lagi percaya karena kita pernah melakukan hal-hal yang tidak jujur, pada waktunya nanti, mereka akan melihat sendiri upaya kita^^

Teruslah bergerak hingga kelelahan itu lelah mengikutimu.
Teruslah berlari hingga kebosanan itu bosan mengejarmu.
Teruslah berjalan hingga keletihan itu letih bersamamu.
Teruslah berjaga hingga kelesuan itu lesu menemanimu.

Karena di mana ada kemauan, di situ ada jalan^^


3 hal dalam hidup yang paling berharga:
1. Keluarga
2. Sahabat
3. Cinta

Kekayaan bukan soal berapa banyak uang yang anda miliki.
Kekayaan adalah apa yang masih anda miliki saat anda kehilangan semua uang anda.

Jika anda kehilangan semua uang anda, ingatlah bahwa anda masih memiliki keluarga.

Jika anda kehilangan semua keluarga anda, ingatlah bahwa anda masih memiliki sahabat.

What is the difference between blood and friend?
>>Blood enters the heart and flows out, but friend enters the heart and stay inside.

Jika anda kehilangan semua keluarga anda dan tak ada satu pun sahabat, maka ingatlah bahwa anda masih memiliki cinta untuk mendapatkan mereka kembali, untuk mengenang masa-masa indah bersama mereka dan untuk menciptakan persahabatan yang baru dengan kehangatan kasih yang mampu anda berikan^^

If love hurts, then love some more.
If love hurts some more, then love even more.
If love hurts even more, then love till its hurt no more

Kumpulan Kata–kata Mutiara kehidupan

Kumpulan kata-kata mutiara / bijak dalam bahasa inggris dan indonesia.

Smile is the shortest distance between two people.
Senyum adalah jarak yang terdekat antara dua manusia .

Real power does not hit hard , but straight to the point.
Kekuatan yang sesungguhnya tidak memukul dengan keras , tetapi tepat sasaran

You have to endure caterpillars if you want to see butterflies. (Antoine De Saint)
Anda harus tahan terhadap ulat jika ingin dapat melihat kupu-kupu. (Antoine De Saint)

Only the man who is in the truth is a free man.
Hanya orang yang berada dalam kebenaranlah orang yang bebas.

Every dark light is followed by a light morning.
Malam yang gelap selalu diikuti pagi yang tenang.

Laughing is healthy, especially if you laugh about yourself.
Tertawa itu sehat, lebih-lebih jika mentertawakan diri sendiri.

The danger of small mistakes is that those mistakes are not always small.
Bahayanya kesalahan-kesalahan kecil adalah bahwa kesalahan-kesalahan itu tidak selalu kecil.
Kesalahan kecil bisa mengakibatkan kesalahan yang lebih besar. Bersamaan dengan kesalahan itu, persoalannya bisa menjadi besar pula. Maka kesalahan kecil pun harus segera dibetulkan.

To be silent is the biggest art in a conversation.
Sikap diam adalah seni yang terhebat dalam suatu pembicaraan.

The worst in the business world is the situation of no decision. (Napoleon).
Yang terparah dalam dunia usaha adalah keadaan tidak ada keputusan. (Napoleon).

Dig a well before you become thirsty.
Galilah sumur sebelum Anda merasa haus.

Good manners consist of small sacrifices.
Sopan – santun yang baik yang terdiri dari pengorbanan –pengorbanan kecil.

Kata-kata bijak mengenai Doa

Kumpulan kata-kata mutiara / bijak mengenai doa (prayer)

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. ~Henry Ward Beecher

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. ~Richard J. Needham

When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing. ~Saint Francis of Assisi

"Give us this day our daily bread" is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language. ~P.J. Wingate

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. ~Soren Kierkegaard

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it. ~Guy H. King

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. ~Philip Melanchthen

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~Satchel Paige, 1974

The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him. ~William McGill

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Samuel M. Shoemaker

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. ~Author Unknown

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. ~Author Unknown

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. ~Frederick Douglass, escaped slave

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. ~Austin O'Malley

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. ~Author Unknown

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic. ~Jane Wagner, In Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, 1985, performed by Lily Tomlin

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. ~Oswald Chambers

When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep. ~Author Unknown

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality. ~Oswald Chambers

Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt. ~B. Graham Dienert

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. ~Author Unknown

Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude. ~Walter A. Mueller

The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart. ~Frederick Denison Maurice

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out. ~Mark Twain

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice. ~Matthew Henry

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Inge

Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer. ~Verbena Woods

Some stand on tiptoe trying to reach God to talk to him - you try too hard, friend - drop to your knees and listen to him, he'll hear you better that way. ~Ever Garrison

If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens. ~Ashleigh Brilliant

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God. ~Philip Henry

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort. ~Will Rogers
when it's a glorious day
I pray
and
it's a glorious day
when I pray
~Star Riches, "Every Day"

Kata-Kata Bijak Mengenai Pelukan

Kumpulan kata-kata mutiara / bijak mengenai arti pelukan (Hug)

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. ~Bil Keane, "Family Circus"

Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you. ~Jacques Prevert

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism. ~Leo Buscaglia

You can't wrap love in a box, but you can wrap a person in a hug. ~Author Unknown

Hug Department: Always Open ~Author Unknown

I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug ten people at a time. ~Drew Barrymore

No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Arm ourselves for war? No! All the arms we need are for hugging. ~Author Unknown

I will not play at tug o' war
I'd rather play at hug o' war,
Where everyone hugs
Instead of tugs....
~Shel Silverstein

A hug is a handshake from the heart. ~Author Unknown

You can't give a hug without getting a hug. ~Author Unknown

A hug delights and warms and charms,
that must be why God gave us arms.
~Author Unknown

Hugs are the universal medicine. ~Author Unknown

A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange. ~Author Unknown

Happiness is an unexpected hug. ~Author Unknown

A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance. ~Proverb

If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

There's nothing like a mama-hug. ~Adabella Radici

Hugs grease the wheels of the world. ~Author Unknown

Hug someone your appreciation. ~Violet Gartenlicht

A hug is worth a thousand words. ~Author Unknown

A hug is a smile with arms, a laugh with a stronger grip. ~The Quote Garden

Have you hugged yourself today? ~Anonymous

A hug is two hearts wrapped in arms. ~Author Unknown

I don't discriminate - I'm an equal-opportunity hugger. ~Author Unknown

Hugging has no unpleasant side effects and is all natural. There are no batteries to replace, it's inflation-proof and non-fattening with no monthly payments. It's non-taxable, non-polluting, and is, of course, fully refundable. ~Author Unknown

Never wait until tomorrow to hug someone you could hug today,
because when you give one, you get one right back your way.
~Author Unknown

Be a love pharmacist: dispense hugs like medicine - they are! ~The Quote Garden

Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. ~Author Unknown

A hug is the shortest distance between friends. ~Author Unknown

Kata-kata bijak mengenai Persahabatan

Kata-kata mutiara / bijak mengenai persahabatan (Friendship)

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels

Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ~Author Unknown

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~Leo Buscaglia

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. ~Aristotle

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927

A good friend is cheaper than therapy. ~Author Unknown

If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. ~Edgar Watson Howe

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ~Henry David Thoreau

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ~Arnold Glasow

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~William Shakespeare

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. ~Pam Brown

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. ~George Santayana

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts

If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort. ~Adabella Radici

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. ~Samuel Johnson

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~Dave Tyson Gentry

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~Laurence J. Peter

Kata-kata bijak mengenai pengampunan

Kumpulan kata-kata mutiara / bijak mengenai memaafkan / pengampunan (Forgiveness)

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ~Mark Twain

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ~Marlene Dietrich

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. ~Grace Hopper

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~Mahatma Gandhi

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ~Lewis B. Smedes, "Forgiveness - The Power to Change the Past," Christianity Today, 7 January 1983 (Thanks, Donna)

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. ~William Arthur Ward

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~Paul Boese

If you can't forgive and forget, pick one. ~Robert Brault

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake, Jerusalem

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. ~Isaac Friedmann

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. ~Harriet Nelson

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. ~George Herbert

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. ~Sydney Harris

Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Abe Martin's Broadcast, 1930

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him. ~Olin Miller

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule. ~Lewis B. Smedes

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ~Josh Billings

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ~Roberto Assagioli

One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. ~Franklin P. Jones

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~E.H. Chapin

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ~Oscar Wilde

Kata-kata bijak mengenai tingkah laku (attitude)

Kumpulan kata-kata mutiara / motivasi / kata bijak tentang tingkah laku kita.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest, June 1995

Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. ~Oscar Wilde

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~Ancient Persian Saying

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ~Cavett Robert

It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill

Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. ~Author Unknown

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit

So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. ~The Eagles, "Already Gone"

We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds. ~Robert Brault,

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ~Samuel Johnson

I've decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I'm having a party! ~Betsy Canas Garmon,

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. ~Foster's Law

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ~Attributed to both Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. ~Joe Clark

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~Scott Hamilton

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ~Vince Lombardi

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ~J. Brotherton

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ~Publius Terentius Afer

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. ~Abraham Lincoln

Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life. ~Annette Goodheart

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. ~Buddha

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. ~William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues

I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ~Abraham Lincoln

Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health. ~Author Unknown

Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still I'd like to express my thanks -
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.
~Irving Berlin, "I Got the Sun in the Morning," 1946

To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. ~Ancient Proverb

Make your optimism come true. ~Author Unknown

Cerita Bijak : Parable of the Pencil

Parable of the Pencil

The Pencil Maker took the pencil aside, just before putting him into the box. There are 5 things you need to know, he told the pencil, before I send you out into the world. Always remember them and never forget, and you will become the best pencil you can be.

One: You will be able to do many great things, but only if you allow yourself to be held in Someone's hand.

Two: You will experience a painful sharpening from time to time, but you'll need it to become a better pencil.

Three: You will be able to correct mistakes you will make.

Four: The most important part of you will always be what's inside.

And Five: On every surface you are used on, you must leave your mark. No matter what the condition, you must continue to write.

The pencil understood and promised to remember, and went into the box with purpose in its heart.

Now replacing the place of the pencil with....

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Kata-kata bijak tentang Iman

Kata-kata mutiara dan kata bijak tentang iman (Faith)

Sekiranya kamu mempunyai iman sebesar biji sesawi saja kamu dapat berkata kepada gunung ini: Pindah dari tempat ini ke sana, --maka gunung ini akan pindah, dan takkan ada yang mustahil bagimu. ~Matius 17:20

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog. ~Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. ~John Donne

Faith is reason grown courageous. ~Sherwood Eddy

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ~Kahlil Gibran

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. ~Author Unknown

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety. ~Josh Billings, His Complete Works, 1888

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ~E.M. Forster

Faith is spiritualized imagination. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~J.R.R. Tolkien

Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. ~David S. Muzzey

Faith is a passionate intuition. ~William Wordsworth

To me faith means not worrying. ~John Dewey

Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ~Ramona C. Carroll

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. ~Author Unknown

Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. ~B.C. Forbes

A faith of convenience is a hollow faith. ~Father Mulcahy, M*A*S*H, "A Holy Mess," 1982

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. ~Victor Hugo

Faith makes things possible, not easy. ~Author Unknown

Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us. ~W. Ralph Ward

Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~Lillian Smith

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. ~Emmanuel

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ~Blaise Pascal

Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. ~Carter Lindberg

Weave in faith and God will find the thread. ~Author Unknown

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. ~Author Unknown

Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel. ~Author Unknown

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none. ~Friedrich Nietzche, Human, All Too Human, 1879

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. ~George Seaton

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ~Martin Luther King Jr.

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future. ~Robert Collyer

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. ~Author Unknown

Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. ~George Lancaster Spalding

Kata-kata bijak mengenai senyuman

Kumpulan kata-kata mutiara dan kata bijak mengenai senyuman. Tahukah Anda betapa penting dan berarti nya senyuman itu

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A smile confuses an approaching frown. ~Author Unknown

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. ~Lee Mildon

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. ~Phyllis Diller

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

The world always looks brighter from behind a smile. ~Author Unknown

Start every day with a smile and get it over with. ~W.C. Fields

Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. ~Jim Beggs

A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks. ~Charles Gordy

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. ~William Shakespeare, Othello

A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home. ~Author Unknown

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. ~Andy Rooney

If you smile at someone, they might smile back. ~Author Unknown

Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it. ~Author Unknown

Always remember to be happy because you never know who's falling in love with your smile. ~Author Unknown

Everyone smiles in the same language. ~Author Unknown

If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine. ~Author Unknown

I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. ~Author Unknown

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. ~George Eliot

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. ~Raymond Chandler

Smiling is infectious,
You can catch it like the flu.
Someone smiled at me today,
And I started smiling too.
~Author Unknown

A smile appeared upon her face as if she'd taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there. ~Loma Chandler

A laugh is a smile that bursts. ~Mary H. Waldrip

Smile - sunshine is good for your teeth. ~Author Unknown

The shortest distance between two people is a smile. ~Author Unknown

If you don't start out the day with a smile, it's not too late to start practicing for tomorrow. ~Author Unknown

Smiling is my favorite exercise. ~Author Unknown

I have a tickle in my brain. And it keeps making the corners of my mouth point toward the heavens. ~Jeb Dickerson,

Wear a smile - one size fits all. ~Author Unknown

No matter how grouchy you're feeling,
You'll find the smile more or less healing.
It grows in a wreath
All around the front teeth -
Thus preserving the face from congealing.
~Anthony Euwer

Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day. ~Author Unknown

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~Mother Teresa

A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile. ~Author Unknown

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ~Washington Irving

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. ~Charles Reade

A smile is the universal welcome. ~Max Eastman

Keep smiling - it makes people wonder what you've been up to. ~Author Unknown

You're never fully dressed without a smile. ~Martin Charnin

A smile can brighten the darkest day. ~Author Unknown

It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown. ~Author Unknown

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile. ~Chris Hart

If you would like to spoil the day for a grouch, give him a smile. ~Author Unknown

Smile - it increases your face value. ~Author Unknown

Peace begins with a smile. ~Mother Teresa

A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it. ~Author Unknown

Most smiles are started by another smile. ~Author Unknown

A smile is something you can't give away; it always comes back to you. ~Author Unknown

A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give. ~Author Unknown

It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body... the heart. ~Author Unknown

Kata-kata bijak tentang pengharapan

Kumpulan kata-kata mutiara & kata-kata bijak tentang pengharapan dalam bahasa inggris.

Dan pengharapan tidak mengecewakan, karena kasih Allah telah dicurahkan di dalam hati kita oleh Roh Kudus yang telah dikaruniakan kepada kita. ~ Roma 5:5.

And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. ~ Rome 5:5

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ~Christopher Reeve

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ~Robert G. Ingersoll

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. ~Titus Maccius Plautus

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. ~Vincent McNabb

In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878

When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown

Love floods us with hope. ~Jareb Teague

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope. ~Edgar Howe

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. ~Samuel Johnson

Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all. ~Emily Dickinson

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. ~Anne Lamott

The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.
~William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. ~Marian Zimmer Bradley

You've gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less. ~Author Unknown

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Lord save us all from... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. ~Mark Twain

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. ~George Iles

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier. ~Author Unknown

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so. ~Eric Bentley

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ~Thomas Hardy

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. ~Norman Cousins

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. ~Don Quixote

It's all one thing - both tend into one scope -
To live upon Tobacco and on Hope,
The one's but smoke, the other is but wind.
~Sir Robert Aytoun of Kincaldie, "Sonnet on Tobacco"

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ~Samuel Johnson

Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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Hope deceives more men than cunning does. ~Vauvenargues, Reflections and Maxims, 1746

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. ~Ouida

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. ~Eric Hoffer

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ~Pearl S. Buck

Hope is but the dream of those who wake. ~Matthew Prior

Hope is grief's best music. ~Author Unknown

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. ~Baruch Spinoza

He that lives upon hope will die fasting. ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God. ~Charles L. Allen

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. ~George Weinberg

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope. ~Author Unknown

Hope is patience with the lamp lit. ~Tertullian

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. ~Lin Yutang

Hope is the poor man's bread. ~Gary Herbert

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. ~Victor Hugo

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. ~Robert Ingersoll