Archives - July 2017

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.

The way most people fail is not keeping up the heart.

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

We resent an injury from a friend more than from an enemy.

Every thought we have is a form of energy that continues to exist forever.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild or a grandparent.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable --- each segment distinct.

Home is a shelter from storms --- all sorts of storms.

A word after a word after a word is power.

The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past.

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems --- not people, to focus your energies on answers --- not excuses.

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

When you lose food as a friend, you may miss it at first but soon you will see all the things it was taking away from you.