Unleashing Inspiration

Compiled by

DiAnn Mills

© 2012 DiAnn Mills

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land,

or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."

Helen Keller

A good friend is a connection to life, a tie to the past, a road to the future,

the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

Lois Wyse

Be STILL and know that I am God.

Psalms 46:10

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn

more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams

God gives us friends so the winding road

will never be walked alone.

DiAnn Mills

Friendship is born at that moment when one person

says to another: What! You, too? I thought I was the only one.

C. S. Lewis

A true friend freely advises justly, assists readily,

adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

William Penn

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fightinga hard battle.

Plato

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would

hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say,

"I used everything you gave me."

Erma Bombeck

Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.

Spanish proverb

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens

The canvas of our mind has room for erasure marks, smudges, and a rainbow of color.

DiAnn Mills

Most people are bothered by those passages in

Scripture which they cannot understand;

but as for me, I always noticed that the passages in Scripture which trouble me most are those which I do understand.

Mark Twain

God will only mend a broken heart when

He is given all the pieces.

Unknown

No storm is so great, no wave is so high,

no sea is so deep, no wind is so strong, that Jesus cannot either calm it

or carry us through it.

Anne Graham Lotz

The army of Israel looked at Goliath through the eyes of man and said he's too big to beat. 

David looked at him through the eyes of God

and said he's too big to miss. 

Wally Carter

But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. 

John 1:12

Never eat more than you can lift.

Miss Piggy

If you should die before me, ask if youcould bring a friend.

Stone Temple Pilots

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

The truth does not change according to

our ability to stomach it.

Flannery O'Connor

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a

hundred minus one day so I never haveto live without you.

Winnie the Pooh

If a writer cannot offer hope, what’s the purpose of penning another word?

DiAnn Mills

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth

more than a college education.

Theodore Roosevelt

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only

through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired,

and success achieved.

Helen Keller

A novel is a living breathing organism. It has the power to entertain, shape, and inspire lives, but a

Christian novel does even more. It plants seeds to grow

believers into the kingdom of God.

DiAnn Mills

Our lives improve only when we take chancesand the first and most difficult risk we can take is to

be honest with ourselves.Walter Anderson

I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

George Macdonald

Most of the shadows of life are caused by

standing in our own sunshine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend

who for me does not consult his calendar. 

Robert Brault

God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do. That's why we're called human beings, not human

doings. 

Rick Warren

You have a three-fold mission on earth: Love Jesus. Love His people. Everything else is simply narration

in the book of life.

DiAnn Mills

The best and most beautiful things in the worldcannot be seen or even touched -

they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Many people will walk in and out of your life but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship is the finest balm

for the pangs of despised love.

Jane Austen

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Benjamin Franklin

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the

truth in love to us.

Margaret Guenther 

Be Blessed My Friend!

Always be open for one more divine appointment.

DiAnn Mills