We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
-Theodore Roosevelt
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
-Paulo Coelho
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
-Jeane Kirkpatrick
et me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.