Category: Thought For The Day

Today’s quotes surround the subject of pain and suffering and how sometimes those things can be a good thing…

“Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it there is no way of life.” (Angelina Jolie)

“In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?” (Leslie Caron)

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty…I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” (Theodore Roosevelt)

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.” (Rabindranath Tagore)

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson

Today’s quotes surround the subject of the lack of clean and potable water in so many areas around the world and what that causes…

People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.” (Manoj Bhargava)

“For may of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.” (Marcus Samuelsson)

“Water-related diseases are responsible for 80 percent of all illnesses and deaths in the developing world.” (Secretary-General Kofi Annan)

“I assure you, there needs to be no place on Earth where people cannot have access to clean, pure water – and whatever else is needed to “make life work” – if the people of Earth simply cared enough about each other.” (Neale Donald Walsch)

“Every two minutes, a child under the age of 5 dies from illnesses related to poor water and sanitation – amounting to nearly 300,000 child deaths a year.” (United Nations statistic)

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson

Today’s quotes deal with continuing to live in all the uncertainty I have with my life’s difficult circumstances, remaining in those maybes, keeping my faith, in God that He’s still there and got me in His hands…

“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.” (Paulo Coelho)

“My faith didn’t remove the pain, but it got me through the pain. Trusting God didn’t diminish or vanquish the anguish, but it enabled me to endure it.” (Robert Rogers)

“Faith is not an assurance that everything is going to be okay. Faith is the assurance that God is in control.” (Heather Zempel)

“If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity, it would just be a prudent insurance policy.” (Elizabeth Gilbert) 

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson