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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William ShakespeareHome is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert FrostIt ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark TwainWho is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin |
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A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life. It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry. We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something useful. Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. No matter what has happened, always behave as if nothing had happened. The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them. |
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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. |
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