Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
There are ways from light into darkness and from darkness into light. There are ways, also, from the gloom into deeper darkness, and from the dawn into brighter light. The wise man will use the light he has to receive more light. He will constantly advance in the knowledge of truth.
Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
-Steve Maraboli
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
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.
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
-Anne Rice
The mode of living which is founded upon a total harmlessness towards all creatures upon a minimum of such harm is the highest morality.
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery