Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things,our powers, out desires, our food, are really necassary for our existance in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. -The Adventure of the Naval Treaty, by Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle

 

 
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens
of another. -Charles Dickens

What do we live for, if not to make the world less difficult for each other? -George Eliot

I praise you when you regard the trouble of your friend as your own. -Plautus
Happiness does not depend on money or leisure, or society, or even on health; it
depends on our relation to those we love.
 
Tales you know are quickly spun, deeds are sooner said than done. -The Little Humpbacked Horse, by Pyotr Yershov

In serving each other we become free. -King Arthur, First Knight
If dandelions were hard to grow,they would be welcome on any lawn. -Andrew V.Mason
 

The heart that has truely loved never forgets but as truely loves on to the close, as the sunflower turns on her god when he sets the same look that she gave when he rose. -Irish song

The worst prison would be a closed heart. -Pope John Paul II

 

An adventure is nothing more than an inconvenience rightly taken; an inconvenience is nothing more than an adventure wrongly taken.

All love is sweet, given or returned. -Shelley



The man who asks mercy for another while both are in peril will be answered first. -The Talmud