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Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips,
be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It is no use walking anywhere to preach
unless our walking is our preaching.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
...
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
- attributed to St. Francis of Assisi
I have been all things unholy.
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service,
to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Above all the grace and the gifts
that Christ gives to his beloved
is that of overcoming self.
- St. Francis of Assisi
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of compassion and pity,
you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your 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;
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.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi,
this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912
Where did you park the invisible car?
- the movie Megamind (2010)
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Where large sums of money are concerned,
it is advisable to trust nobody.
- Agatha Christie
Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
Give a boy address and accomplishments
and you give him the mastery
of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to his piece of debris?
What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
- The Buddha
Home is where we feel comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you follow your bliss... doors will open
where you would not have thought there would be doors,
and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Find a place inside where there's joy,
and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell
Where there is unconditional love,
there is no room for unhappiness.
Whenever I look in the mirror today,
I will say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
You are today where your thoughts have brought.
- James Allen
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
Your sacred space is where you can
find yourself again and again.
- Joseph Campbell
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My dream is of a place and a time where America
will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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