Category: Best Life Quotes

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. – Jennie Jerome Churchill

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort, of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. – George Eliot

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. – Henri J.M. Nouwen

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. – Helen Keller

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

…when people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other’s faces, or to intrude into each other’s hearts. – Albert Schweitzer

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? – Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . . – C.S. Lewis

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. – Anaïs Nin

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over. – Octavia Butler

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. – Alban Goodier

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. – Kahlil Gibran

It is a good thing to be rich, and a good thing to be strong, but it is better to be beloved of many friends. – Euripides

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. – Elbert Hubbard

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a person’s success in life. – Edward Everett Hale

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path. – Scandinavian Mythology

A friend is a present you give yourself. – Robert Louis Stevenson

I do not wish to treat friends daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle

I know now that the world is not filled with strangers. It is full of other people – waiting only to be spoken to. – Beth Day

Friends should be treasured. And to have good friends, you must be a good friend. That’s what mother told me. As always, she was right. – Angela Douglas

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness. – Sydney Smith

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. – Henry David Thoreau

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. – Joseph Roux

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. – Jane Austen

Friends are people who go on conspiratorial shopping sprees together, diving in and out of shops totally beyond their price range, and ending up eating oozing cream cakes with only just enough money to get home. – Pam Brown

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. – William Shakespeare

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Grace is the love that gives, that loves the unlovely and the unlovable.” -Oswald C. Hoffmann

“For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.” – Saint Augustine of Hippo

“He who has not felt what sin is in the Old Testament knows little what grace is in the New. He who has not trembled in Moses, and wept in David, and wondered in Isaiah will rejoice little in Matthew, rest little in John. He who has not suffered under the Law will scarcely hear the glad sound of the gospel.” -R. W. Barbour

“I need thy presence every passing hour; What but thy grace can foil the tempter’s power?” -Henry Francis Lyte

“If God wants you to do something, he’ll make it possible for you to do it, but the grace he provides comes only with the task and cannot be stockpiled beforehand. We are dependent on him from hour to hour, and the greater our awareness of this fact, the less likely we are to faint or fail in a crisis.” -Louis Cassels

Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound)
That sav’d a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
-John Newton

“That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late. -François Mauriac

“The growth of grace is like the polishing of metals. There is first an opaque surface; by and by you see a spark darting out, then a strong light; till at length it sends back a perfect image of the sun that shines upon it.” -Edward Payson

“The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.” – Saint Augustine of Hippo

“To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.” -Thomas À Kempis

“When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God’s generous grace.” -Erwin W. Lutzer

“Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.” -Saint Thomas Aquinas

“Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning, then a light; and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness.” -Thomas Adams

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggle increases.-St. Rose of Lima

What was the first rule of our dear Savior’s life? You know if was to do his Father’s will. Well, then, the first purpose of our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills; and thirdly, to do it because it is his will. We know certainly that our God calls us to a holy life. We know that he gives us every grace, every abundant grace; and though we are so weak of ourselves, this grace is able to carry us through every obstacle and difficulty. – St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

Oh! Could you but see the beauty of a soul in the grace of God, you would be so much enamored of it that you would do nothing else but ask souls of God; and, on the contrary, could a soul in mortal sin be placed before your eyes, you would do nothing but weep, and you would hate sin more than the devil himself, and always pray for the conversion of sinners. –Saint Mary Magdalene de Pazzi

The path of virtue is painful to nature when left to itself; but nature, assisted by grace, finds it easy and agreeable. – Ven. Louis de Granada

The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the feelings that we have of love to Him, but rather in an irrevocable abandonment of our whole being into His hands, and in a firm resolution never to consent to any sin great or small. -Saint Francis of Sales

Grace is nothing else but a certain beginning of glory in us. — St. Thomas Aquinas

Few souls understand what God would accomplish in them if they were to abandon themselves unreservedly to Him and if they were to allow His grace to mold them accordingly. — St. Ignatius Loyola

God gives each one of us sufficient grace ever to know His holy will, and to do it fully. – St. Ignatius of Loyola

What beauty? I don’t see my beauty at all; I see only the graces I’ve received from God. You always misunderstand me; you don’t know, then, that I’m only a little seedling, a little almond. – Saint Therese of Lisieux

Blessed the one whose thought has been with grace, like a cloud filled with rain, and which waters souls for the increase of fruits of life; his praise will be for everlasting glory. – St. Ephrem of Syria

Sickness is a great grace of God; it teaches us what we are; in it we recognize the patient, humble, and mortified man. When sickness weakens and mortifies the body, the soul is better disposed to raise herself up to God. – St. Paul of the Cross

Do you want the Lord to give you many graces? Visit Him often. Do you want Him to give you few graces? Visit Him rarely. Do you want the devil to attack you? Visit Jesus rarely in the Blessed Sacrament. Do you want him to flee from you? Visit Jesus often. Do you want to conquer the devil? Take refuge often at the feet of Jesus. Do you want to be conquered by the devil? Forget about visiting Jesus. My dear ones, the Visit to the Blessed Sacrament is an extremely necessary way to conquer the devil. Therefore, go often to visit Jesus and the devil will not come out victorious against you. – St. John Bosco

The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.- Jodi Picoult

The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
-William Goldsmith Brown

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. – Washington Irving

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. -Victor Hugo

Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us. – Maria Shriver

But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begin.– Mitch Albom

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. -Tenneva Jordan

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. – Abraham Lincoln

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.- George Washington

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. – Mildred B. Vermont

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. -Honoré de Balzac

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. -Sophia Loren

“So teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”
-Psalm 90:12, WEB

Sometimes we think that we have nothing left at all, but this is often wrong. We may have lost much, but we are still left with something valuable, we are still left with time. Time to think about the lessons we have learned. Time to plan. Time to begin again.

Not everyone has the time that you still have. So while there is still time, why not spend it well?

While there is still time, change. While there is still time, dream. While there is still time, forgive. While there is still time, love.

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” – Mother Teresa

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.” – Mitch Albom, For One More Day