Archives - July 2019

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.

"Everything happens for a reason" is something that we have to tell ourselves all the time, because it's good to have the idea that something good is around the corner.

You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you’ll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

In my friend, I find a second self.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Yoga takes us to the present moment, the only place where life exists.

It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens.

Skipping gives the adult a well-deserved break and lets the inner child be in charge for a while.

One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Reading --- the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people --- they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

Your dreams are what define your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high.

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.