He wants to be different from everyone else and daydreams of winning the global race, Parents unmarried and living abroad, relatives keen to bag the estate, schizophrenia not excluded, will he learn to grow up before it's too late?
God delays, but doesn't forget.
I am a part of all I have read.
Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.
We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling, driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
Silence is one great art of conversation.
Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.
Time is an available instrument for reaching the eternal.
Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.
Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.
Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers Save that they did not last?
We walk by faith, not by sight.
A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.
If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear That which disfigures it.