Wish I Said That 4

The Wish I Said That items below are used with the permission of the author Ralph Milton.

Page Four

WISH I SAID THAT… 16

I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.
                        Calvin Coolidge via Evelyn McLachlan

Some people, when they become bishops, grow. Others swell.
                        From Susan Fiore, AOJN, who heard it from her rector.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
                        Václav Havel

WISH I SAID THAT… 17

If at first you don't succeed, relax; you're just like the rest of us.
                        Mary Pickford via Evelyn McLachlan

If you think there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody.
                        Source unknown

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
                        Albert Einstein

WISH I SAID THAT… 18

A neurotic is a person who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the person who lives in it.
            A psychiatrist is the one who collects the rent."
                        Jerome Lawrence

Suburbia: where they tear out the trees and then name streets after them.
                        Source unknown

Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.
                        Source unknown

WISH I SAID THAT… 19

You say, "If God were to give me a forgiving heart, I'd be happy to forgive them." Now, listen here: virtues are partly gifts from God and partly our own doing. Whenever God gives us insight, we should act virtuously. That's how we exercise [God's] goodness in us."
                        Mechthild of Magdeburg, via Don Sandin

I'm not depressed. I've just been in a very bad mood for 30 years.
                        Robert Harling

Action is the antidote to despair.
                        Joan Baez

WISH I SAID THAT… 20

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
                        Source unknown via Sharon Poirier

If ignorance is bliss why are so many people unhappy?
                        Source unknown via Chris Smith

If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
                        Mary Pickford via Jeannette Solimine