Life's moments...

2012 New Year

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, 

and let each new year find you a better man."

- Benjamin Franklin

Today's Inspiring Words. lol.

Thomas Jefferson Quote

 

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson

C.S. Lewis Quote

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
~ C. S. Lewis

Thomas Jefferson

 

"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, 1816

Never Give In

“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” 

Sir Winston Churchill

Music

 

 

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

~ Victor Hugo

Washington's wisdom on true friendship

 

 

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks and adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." --George Washington, Letter to Bushrod Washington, 1783

Benjamin Franklin Quote

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

~Benjamin Franklin

Fisher Ames Quote

 

 

 

 

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
~Fisher Ames

Smile for today

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia. ~ Charles Schulz