Tag: thought for today

Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

—Lenore Hershey

HT: All Things Christmas

Off to one side sits a group of shepherds. They sit silently on the floor, perhaps perplexed, perhaps in awe, no doubt in amazement. Their night watch had been interrupted by an explosion of light from heaven and a symphony of angels. God goes to those who have time to hear him–and so on this cloudless night he went to simple shepherds.

—Max Lucado

HT: Daring to Live Fully

Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world—stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death—and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christmas.

—Henry Van Dyke

HT: Daring to Live Fully

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

—Tom Stoppard

HT: Execupundit

The best idea is one that leaves room for the possibility that everything is exactly the other way round.

—Vaclav Havel

HT: Execupundit

The player that puts the ball through the hoop has ten hands.

—John Wooden

HT: Tim Elmore

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

—Elsa Maxwell

HT: Words of Wisdom: More Good Advice compiled and edited by William Safire, Leonard Safir

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

—Servant in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew

HT: Words of Wisdom: More Good Advice compiled and edited by William Safire, Leonard Safir

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

—William Makepeace Thackeray

HT: Words of Wisdom: More Good Advice compiled and edited by William Safire, Leonard Safir