It’s a lot easier, she realised, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.
I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.
If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment.
Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself.
Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.
Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.
Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Don't make prayer a consistent battle, but rather constantly pray against life's battles.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.