If you are good, life is good.
If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sun beams and you will always look lovely!
There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
I’ve also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It’s sure to be a phony.
I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
The more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
Recognize the ego for what it is: a collective dysfunction, the insanity of the human mind.
You can tell a lot about a person by listening to the way they talk about someone they once loved.
What is it they want from a man that they didn’t get from his work? What do they expect? What is there left of him when he’s done his work? What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What’s left of the man when the work’s done but a shambles of apology.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself.
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.
There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
