Quotemeal for Tuesday, August 16, 2011

"The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it."

— Jean Nicolas Grou

More Quotemeal

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

— Victor Hugo —

"Do not be angry that you cannot make others as you would wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."

— Thomas à Kempis —

"Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our real occasions and necessities, is in no other sense a 'blessing' than as it is an opportunity..."

— John Tillotson —

"If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables,....."

— Madame Jeanne Guyon —