When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
What do you think of God, the teacher asked. After a pause, the young pupil replied, He's not a think, he's a feel.
-Paul Frost
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
-Stephen E. Ambrose
Devotion to God’s Name is my lamp; In this lamp is poured the oil of suffering. The light of realisation burns away this oil…Vast loads of firewood are reduced to ashes by a tiny spark of fire.
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.
-Anne Sexton