Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the...
Bellybuttons are our link with the past.
Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.
Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.
The best fighter is never angry.
The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary. Having tha...
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well.
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the fu...