If the belly is full, she said, if we could know that it would always be full, men would be idle and laugh and play games like children, and then we would have peace and happiness.
I will spend the rest of my life assembling my own mind and my own soul. I will take care of my body carefully, not that it may any more please a man, but because it houses me and therefore I am depen...
Hunger makes thief of any man.
How can school help you with the land? he asked.An old grandfather leaned out of the shadows to make answer. Learning clears the mind, he said, and books open the spirit of man to heaven and to the ea...
He could have been lonely except that he was never lonely, since he had always been alone.
Andre had been telling her an ancient legend of the fall of man into evil. It came about, he said, by the hand of a woman, Eve, who gave man forbidden fruit.And how was this woman to know that the fru...
And what was worship except trust and hope that life and death had meaning because they were created and planned by Heaven?
All was well with the land and when all was well with the land then everything was well.
Introversion at least if extreme is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.
Under the decree and guidance of the great King Sejong.
There is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.
Why must this happen to me? To this there could be no answer and there was none. When I knew at last that there could never be an answer, my own resolve shaped into the determination to make meaning o...
Well, and every man has his troubles and I must make shift to live with mine as I can,
We were a proud people. We lost our country. Our only hope for return was to keep ourselves a people. The only hope to keep ourselves a people was to keep our common faith in one God, a God of our own...
To repay evil with kindness is the proof of a good man; a superior man blames himself, a common man blames others.
To live in the midst of danger is to know how good life is, his father replied. But if we are lost in the danger? Kino asked anxiously. To live in the presence of death makes us brave and strong, Kino...
This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise.
There should be a deep attachment, heart should be tied to heart between parent and child, for unless the child learns how to love a parent profoundly, I believe that he will never learn how to love a...
The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the spirit,