May God Enlarge Your Territory Quotes

#1. If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

#2. Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!" So God granted him what he requested. (1 Chronicles 4:9-10)

Bruce H. Wilkinson

#3. My dear Frodo!' exclaimed Gandalf. 'Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you at a pinch.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.

Julia Cameron

#5. Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

B. Alan Wallace

#6. One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.

Barack Obama

#7. [Great literature] lifts you out of the here and now and brings you closer to the angels.

Allison Burnett

#8. Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

Thomas Brooks

#9. Adapt or die. Some

Andrew S. Grove

#10. Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

Henry Rollins