Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
Faith is composed of the heart’s intention. Light comes through faith… O Faith, give us faith!
Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
-Benjamin Lichtenberg
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
-Jean Cocteau
The word Christianity is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me – with such a one I am in love.