All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting to change all the tenor of our lives.
One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.
Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate.
Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it.
Marriage: a job. Happiness or unhappiness has nothing to do with it.
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.
This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.
I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?
