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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Don't worry about trying to impress people... Just focus on how you can add value to their lives.
If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.
Love thine enemies for the strengths they call up in us make them the instruments of our destiny.
Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.
Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.
The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.
Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.
We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.
Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.
A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.
When you study the Tao Te Ching, you have to use your heart to try to imagine what Tao really is.
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.
In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.
Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.
Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.
Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.
A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.
I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.
Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing
Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence?
Biblical counseling is listening to a person long enough until you hear a violation of scripture.
There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.
Death comes in its own time, in its own way.Death is as unique as the individual experiencing it.
The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.
True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.
It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.
Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.
The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods.
Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.
For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!
Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.
The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
In pursuit of a more natural life, perhaps we ought to sit a little less and sweat a little more.
I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.
People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.