Giovanni Giocondo Quotes
No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant.
The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy.
The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see - and to see we have only to look.
Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there.
Courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home.
Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage, then to claim it: that is all!
I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.