Freundlicher Brief Quotes

#1. Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?

Hal Borland

#2. I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.

Epictetus

#3. A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

George William Curtis

#4. Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.

Thomas De Quincey

#5. I think I might've turned 39, look like I turned 29, feel like I turned about 19.

Roy Jones Jr.

#6. Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.

Oswald Chambers

#7. All right, who prayed for the miracle?" he asked softly. Three guys raised their hands. "You're all promoted. Nice work.

Evan Currie

#8. It was a pleasure to work with Destiny's Child in the beginning of their career. Working in the studio with Beyonce was a lot of fun. She's an extremely hard worker, perfectionist, and a talented writer.

Chris Stokes

#9. The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

Woodrow Wilson

#10. The missingness of the missing. We know what that feels like. Every endeavor, every kiss, every stab in the heart, every letter home, every leaving, is a ransack of what's in front of us in the service of what's lost.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#12. I'll walk as fast as I want, and I will take breaks whenever I feel like it. There is no one to follow, no one to keep up with. There's just me and this one beautiful day, this one moment, right here, now.

Elana K. Arnold