Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat that is progress.
To learn new habits is everything for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
How then find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness spontaneity instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. ... By accepting the...
Faith is a certitude without proofs ... a sentiment for it is a hope it is an instinct for it precedes all outward instruction.
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply chan...
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply cha...
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied.
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped for everything cannot be equally considered...
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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