Quote from Aretha F.

“Trying to grow up is hurting, you know. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.”

Aretha Franklin quotes (American singer of soul music, b.1942) Well, this is certainly relevant as I just blew it again with my attempts to control something I have no right to try to control.  How many times do I have to do this before I learn to Let Go and REALLY Let God! It seems some things I never, ever learn.  It's like hitting my head against the same wall over and over.  The least I could do is find a new wall.  The definition of insanity:  Doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.  To my credit, hopefully, I'm too stubborn to give up.  One day, I'll have THAT mistake conquered with God's strength and help. Amen to that!!

LORD BYRON

"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad"  Lord Byron

I have journaled most of my life for this very reason.  How wonderful to find this passion and need expressed so succinctly.

A FEW NEW QUOTES

I have run across a few more really good quotes, so I'm adding them even though I don't have time right now to elaborate on them.  Til soon.

"Wisdom will always do now what will make you feel good later."  Joyce Meyer

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."  Confucius.

"Temptation only has power when it's feeding a lack in your life"  Bob Meisner

QUOTES FROM A READER

I had a reader submit these quotes to me.  I really like them.  I'm keeping the person anonymous, but I'm grateful for these.  Thank you so much.  Would so welcome more from anyone.  Blessings to all, Marni+

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture, just get the people to stop reading them."       Ray Bradbury

"The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still, small voice of conscience."        Mahatma Gandhi

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."     G.K. Chesterton

THE VIRTUE OF EXCELLENCE

“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.” Quoted by several, and I can't remember the original person.

C.S. LEWIS

Several of his quotations here reflect the Christian faith of C. S. Lewis:

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world” 
 C.S. Lewis quotes (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)

“Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.”

C.S. Lewis quotes (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)

   "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

C.S. Lewis quotes (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)

     “An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.”

C.S. Lewis quotes (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-196

      A brilliant man, C.S. Lewis was born on November 29, 1898.  He was nicknamed Jack, and that's the name that everyone close to him used.  He was schooled in "extensive literary philosophical studies" in Latin, Greek, French, and Italian. He attended the University College, Oxford, twice, with his commission and service as a British officer in between.  His stint in the military lasted two years.  He was always actively writing, first in school magazines, then into the ever-greater works he became known for.  He was raised a Christian but fell away from that into atheism when he was about thirteen to fifteen years old (1911-1913).

       In 1929, he admitted God was God and became a theist.  In 1931, after a life-altering talk with his good friends J.R.R. Tolkien, a devout Roman Catholic, and Hugo Dyson, he took a ride by motorcycle to the Whipsnade Zoo. On the way, in his own words, he said,, "I did not believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, and when we reached the zoo I did."  In at least one of his writings, he wrote that, "I was pursued by the 'hound of heaven'" until he had to give in to faith in Christ. His book "Surprised by Joy" records the conversation of that night with Tolkien and Dyson. The last two chapters in the book relate the end of his search for joy as he makes the leap from atheism to theism and then to Christianity.  He passed away on November 22, 1963, the same day of John F. Kennedy's assassination and the death of Aldous Huxley .
     Some of his best known works:  The Chronicales of Narnia, Mere Christianity, Surprised by Joy, The Space Trilogy, A Grief Observed, The Screwtape Letters, and Reflections on the Psalms.

Sources:
http://cslewis.drzeus.net/bio/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprised_by_Joy
(Will add others I looked over)