All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.
I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly.
The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure.
The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.
We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit , power , and love of our Redeemer.
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!"
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.