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Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
For the nature of women is closely allied to art
What we do not understand we do not possess.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
It's the imperfections that make things beautiful.
The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.
Religion gives a dignity to distress.
Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.
Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.
Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.
I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Unpaid work never commands respect.
Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.
Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.
Peace on earth and mercy mild are still possible. On Christmas Eve, all things are possible.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
