Ungladdened Quotes

#1. I felt as if it were better, or not worse, to have compressed my enjoyments and sufferings into a few wild years, and then to rest myself in an early grave, than to have chosen the untroubled and ungladdened course of the crowd before me, whose days were all alike, and a long lifetime like each day.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#2. I believe that many professing Christians are cold and uncomfortable because they are doing nothing for their Lord; but if they actively served him, their blood would begin to circulate spiritually, and it would be well with them.

Charles Spurgeon

#3. Life shouldn't be about picking up the pieces

Maggi Myers

#4. Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit

Queen Elizabeth II

#5. What would a Martian visitor think to see a human being laugh? It must look truly horrible: the sight of furious gestures, flailing limbs, and thorax heaving in frenzied contortions ...

Marvin Minsky

#6. As each new skill is learned, you will merge it with those previously learned until, one day, you are simply drawing - just as, one day, you found yourself simply driving without thinking about how to do it.

Betty Edwards

#7. A 'hello again' after the final goodbye is sometimes harder than just keeping the goodbye as it was.

Jessiqua Wittman

#8. Myth murdering myth: that's war these days.

William H Gass

#9. Why follow the herd? Be you - fearlessly. Make the herd stronger instead of just blending in.

Cindy Tansin

#10. You will never truly realize the value of life until you take your very last breath.

Debasish Mridha

#11. So what if you're right? So what if you're wrong?
In the end you might be surprised to find that God doesn't care so much about whether you were right or wrong but whether, despite it all, you were kind or cruel.

Richelle E. Goodrich