Good Thoughts to Live By #8

Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.  2 Thessalonians 2:17

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
  -Christopher Robin


A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
  -Father James Keller

Celebrate with a treat or a party on Red-Letter Failure Days (these are days when everything goes wrong).
  -Judith Towse-Roberts


The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.
  -Kahlil Gibran


Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
  -Friedrich Nietzsche

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea.
  -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Mississippi River near Nauvoo

Life is a gift; a gift to be opened and shared often, don’t let it collect dust or fall into the wrong hands.
  -Rebecca Spindler


You should let go and make yourself empty and calm.
  -Ying-An

Mississippi River sunset near Nauvoo, Illinois