Category: Of the night

“Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.” ~ Douglas MacArthur

“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?” ~ J. B. Priestley

“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.” ~ Charles Dickens

“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” ~ Winston Churchill

“When adversity strikes, that’s when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.” ~ LL Cool J

“Whatever you are physically…male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy–all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.??? ~ Cassandra Clare

“It’s said that All Hallows’ Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin – and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.” ~ Erin Morgenstern

“It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.” ~ Elizabeth Taylor

“They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life’s lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.” ~ Joshua Sylvester

“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?” ~ M. Forster

“Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.” ~ Nikola Tesla

“Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God’s loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.” ~ Saint Bernard

We will never forget…

“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” ~ Helen Keller

“Oh, pity the poor glutton
Whose troubles all begin
In struggling on and on to turn
What’s out into what’s in.???
~ Walter de la Mare