St Oswald's Magazine StOM 1512 | Page 11

SAYINGS/THOUGHTS Every great achievement was once impossible. Anonymous There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so William Shakespeare Time flies never to be recalled. Virgil May I be safe, May I be healthy May I be happy, May I live with ease Buddha Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. Ovid Our life is frittered away by detail …… Simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau Quiet thoughts mend the body. Chinese Proverb Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open. Lord Dewar Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu Talent develops in quiet places. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Practice Jesus If we practiced Jesus every way, It'd be like Christmas every day; If we, like Him, were meek and mild And loved each woman, man and child, If we'd read our Bible, it'd remind us, So that every single day would find us More and more in sweet accord With our sweet Jesus--Master, Lord. Then every day that we're alive Would be like December 25. By Joanna Fuchs StOM Page 11