"We remember a beauty that faded, a love that waned. But we remember with far greater pain that we did not see that beauty when it flowered, that we failed to respond with love to love when it was tendered."
- Alexander Schindler
 

"As we grow old, the beauty steals inwards."
- Emerson
 

"Beauty seen is never lost."
- John G. Whittier
 

"A beautiful young girl is an accident of nature but a beautiful older woman is a work of art."
- Louis Nizer
 

"God has made beauty to consist of variety within unity."

- Jose Rizal, Philippines National Hero
 

"Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts."
- Martin Buxbaum
 
 
 

"I'd rather believe in something and be wrong than not believe in it and be right."
- Grove Patterson
 
 
 

"What we are is God's gift to us; what we make of ourselves is our gift to God.
- Old saying
 

"Never make anyone like yourself - you know and God knows that one of you is enough."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

"The teachings of Jesus are more important than the teachings about Jesus."
- a group of Bible scholars,  quoted by TIME, 9/10/95
 

"People talk too much to God. I listen."
- AGP
 

"If you believe in God, don't try to understand Him; pray that He understands you. If you don't believe in God, try to understand Nature."
- AGP
 

"We shall never find God in this life - that is what makes life tragic. But to stop searching for God, that makes life meaningless."
- Maurice Mackay
 

"Pray to God but keep rowing to the shore."
- Old Russian Proverb
 

"How sad it is when God deserves only the crumbs of our time, when God is the periphery of our activities, if ever He is remembered at all!"
- quoted
 

"You can have tons of religion without an ounce of salvation."
- quoted
 

"God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes but everybody who looks at it sees something different."
- quoted
 
"When God puts a mountain in your path, you don't sit at the foot of it and cry; you set out to climb it."
- quoted

"God respects me when I work, but He loves me when I sing."
- Rabindranath Tagose
 
 
 

"Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written."
- Mark Twain
 
 
 

"Never look back in bitterness. If one went on looking at brown and dead leaves, he will never see the sprouting of new and green ones."
- Hans Menzi
 
 
 

Count your blessings...
"Think of what you have, rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them."
- Marcus Aurelius
 

"I grumbled because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet."
- quoted
 

"The blessing is not in living but in living well."
- Seneca