For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
In thinking, “This is I” and “That is mine”, he binds himself with his self, as does a bird with a snare.
One who serves and seeks no recompense finds union with the Lord. Such a servant alone takes the Master’s guidance, says Nanak, As on him is divine grace.
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
-William Allen White
Of winter’s lifeless world each tree now seems a perfect part; Yet each one holds summer’s secret deep down within its heart.
Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.
-Dwight Lyman Moody
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
-Robert Paul “Tad” Williams