The Padded Room

This page is dedicated to Quotes that I have gathered over the years.
I hope you enjoy them.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
- Corrie ten Boom

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It’s not how you live, it’s whose life you change in the wake of yours.
- Unknown

Every person is gifted in some area. We just have to find out what.
- Evelyn Blose Holman

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he or she is someone today.
- Stacia Tausher

Experience is the name that everyone gives to his mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill

It matters not how oft you kneel, in attitude of prayer so true, unless inside, where no man sees, your very soul is kneeling too.
- Mary L. O’Hara

Recall it as often as you wish, a happy memory never wears out.
- Libbie Fudim

Love is a little blind; when we love someone dearly we unconsciously overlook many faults.
- Beatrice Saunders

Remember the tea kettle – It is always up to its neck in hot water, yet it still sings!
- Unknown

Happy times and bygone days are never lost…In truth, they grow more wonderful within the heart that keeps them.
- Kay Andrew

Prayer should be the key of the morning and the lock of the night.
- Owen Felltham

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
- George Sand

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
- Helen Keller

When God measures man he puts the tape around his heart – not his head.
- Guideposts

The gift of happiness belongs to those who unwrap it.
- Unknown

It’s the little things we do and say, that mean so much as we go our way. A kindly deed can lift a load, from weary shoulders, on the road.
- Willa Hoey

We believe that the power behind us is greater then the task ahead.
- Motto over a church in Missouri

No one knows me like God does.
- Unknown

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
- Charlotte Bronte

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
- David Viscott

The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.
- Thomas Watson

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
- Albert Schweitzer

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
- Plato

Teaching is the choicest of professions because everybody who is anybody was taught how to be somebody by a teacher.
- Unknown

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward

The people who influence you are people who believe in you.
- Henry Drummond

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
- Galileo Galilei

Children are our most valuable natural resource.
- Herbert Hoover

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.
- Zen Saying

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
- Mark Van Doren

I am not a teacher but an awakener.
- Robert Frost

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
- Oliver Wendell Holme

Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The student armed with information will always win the battle.
- Meladee McCarty

Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.
- George Evans

What’s done to children, they will do to society.
- Karl Menninger

Act as if what you do makes a difference, because it does.
- Unknown

When one helps another, both are strong.
- German Proverb

A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive, without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.
- Unknown

I will be the gladdest under the sun, I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God’s gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
- Frances Farmer

Give what you have. To someone it may be better than you dare to think.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

People do their best work when they are passionately engaged in what they are doing.
- Erie S. Raymond

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Garvey

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
- Gail Sheehy

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.
- Yogi Desai

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start my friend, anyone can start form now and make a brand new end.
- Carl Bard

He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool: shun him. He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a student: teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep: wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise: follow him.
- Asian Proverb

If we learn to appreciate more of what we already have, we will find ourselves having more to appreciate.
- Michael Angier

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Kierkegaard

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge

We do not take action to gain or prove we are valuable, we take action to gain results and discover more of who we already are.
- Michael E. Angi

Eagles don’t flock. You have to find them one by one.
- Unknown

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
- Dr. Deepak Chopra

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
- Unknown

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
- James Allen

Love is a little company of two; where joy is doubled, grief divided, and the road is traveled together.
- Unknown

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
- Emmett Fox

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
- Emanuel Swedenborg

A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
- Eleanor Roosevelt.

Ideas are worthless. Intentions have no power. Plans are nothing…unless they are followed with action.
- Michael E. Angie

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.
- Allen J. Boone

To understand your parents’ love, you must raise children yourself.
- Chinese Proverb

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
- Joseph Addison

A self-centered man admitted, “Sure, I know that the Bible says to love our neighbor as ourselves. But frankly, I don’t believe that my neighbor can stand all that affection.”
- Unknown

I did not hear the words you said, instead, I heard the love.
- Unknown

Its better to have loved and lost, than to have hated and won.
- Unknown

Love is not blind, it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it chooses to see less.
- Unknown

No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Unknown

Love is not a matter of counting the years…but making the years count.
- Michelle St. Amand

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s lives.
- Ogden Nash

A happy family is but an earlier Heaven.
- John Bowring

My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
- Clarence Budinton Kelland

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he’s really in trouble.
- Dennis Fakes

Teenagers are people who act like babies if they’re not treated like adults.
- MAD Magazine

There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
- Graham Green

If you want children to keep there feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
- Abigail Van Buren

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
- Hadia Bejar

A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle.
- Unknown

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
- Dante

Eagles may soar, but weasels are never sucked into jet engines.
- Unknown

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
- Unknown

Pessimist always take the cynic route.
- Antoni Tabak

We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.
- Konrad Adenauer

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Whether you think that you can or that you can’t, you are usually right.
- Henry Ford

An obligation to feel can freeze feeling.
- C.S. Lewis

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
- C.S. Lewis

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
- Mae West

100 percent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.
- C.S. Lewi