“Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.”
Louisa May Alcott book Little Women
Source: Little Women
Source: Broken Lights Diaries 1953-54. Psalm 118
“Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.”
Louisa May Alcott book Little Women
Source: Little Women
“Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet!”
Giovannino Guareschi The Little World of Don Camillo
Source: The Little World of Don Camillo
Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer
Thus I became a madman.
And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief.
Introduction
The Madman (1918)
Alfred Bester book The Stars My Destination
Source: The Stars My Destination
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
December 13, 1784 (Last words)
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
“My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF… my GOD.”
Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994) British writer
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
Willie Nelson (1933) American country music singer-songwriter.
[The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart, XII, Nelson, Willie; Pipkin, Turk, 159240197X, 2006, Gotham]
“So bless, you my darling, my angel,
Heaven is mine and life is divine with you.”
Song Bless You For Being An Angel
“Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.”
Bob Ross (1942–1995) American painter, art instructor, and television host
Ken Tucker (2006) Kissing Bill O'Reilly, Roasting Miss Piggy: 100 Things to Love and Hate about TV, Macmillan: ISBN 0312330588, p. 155.
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