Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.
The same heart beats in every human breast.
I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer.
Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
Everything in life is luck.
Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
There are defeats more triumphant than victories.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
The old order changeth yielding place to new, and God fulfills himself in many ways.
When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old - I know it is.
I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.
No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.