Saint Francis de Sales Famous Quotes
"Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you."
"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, And try to be that perfectly."
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves."
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength.
"Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs."
"If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success."
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew."
"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time."
Saint Francis de Sales Quotations
Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
Lawana Blackwell
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas Alva Edison
No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.
Sara Teasdale
"Ed Doctors say that Nordberg has a 50 - 50 chance of living, though there's only a 10 percent chance of that."
Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
Advertising is like learning -- a little is a dangerous thing.
P Barnum
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need a sense of life's possibilities."
James Arthur Baldwin
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
Publilius Syrus
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne