quotes about everything happens for a reason

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure. ~Henry David Thoreau



What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson



Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me. ~Proverbs 30:8



Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear - and devils, too. ~Terri Guillemets



I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she get off the bus after paying her fare and board it again by the back door, and then drove away before she could get there. She turned to Judge Carter and said: "When they count the money, they do not know Negro money from white money." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals. ~G.K. Chesterton



It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain. ~Francis Maude



The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927



Sarcasm is the sour cream of wit. ~Author Unknown



And what Thou art may never be destroyed. ~Emily Bronte



It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. ~Walter Bagehot



Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. ~Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism



Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. ~Martin Fowler



Conscience is, in most, an anticipation of the opinion of others. ~Henry Taylor



The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished and put inside boxes. ~Dave Barry



He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. ~Albert Einstein



In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935 In the beginning there was nothing. God said, "Let there be light!" And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. ~Ellen DeGeneres



Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad. ~Author Unknown



Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. ~Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons, 1953