Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
-Jessamyn West
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
-Swami Vivekananda
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-Henry Ford
Do you become spiritual by performing ceremonies and rituals…? Ceremonies and rituals sometimes give a certain sensation, so-called uplift. But they are repetitious, and every sensation that is repeated soon wearies of itself.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.