Diana Ragsdale > Diana's Quotes

“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

“I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.”
― Joyce Kilmer, Trees & Other Poems

“We must take great care never to do anything before having said our morning prayers...The Devil once declared that if he could have the first moment of the day, he was sure of all the rest.”
― St. John Vianney

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens

“She didn’t care if the world thought she was pretty. All she wanted was that special someone to reach beyond the surface and discover her heart.”
― Terry a O'Neal

“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”
― St. Augustine

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved, as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”
― Anglican clergyman

“There is enough time in the day to accomplish everything God wants me to do. If I am harried, it is because I am doing things that God has not asked of me.”
― Lisa Brenninkmeyer, Walking With Purpose: Seven Priorities That Make Life Work

“One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Where there's life there's hope.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again