“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
“A gift – be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love – explains itself!… and if receivin’ it …
“A smiling face is half the meal.”
“It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.”
“I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.”
“Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.”
“To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
“About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.”
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks …
“If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.”
“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.”
“It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you …
“Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.”
“Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.”
“We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do.”
“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”
“Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselves to the ties that bind people, families, and …
“Things don’t fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words …
“My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible.”
“Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.”
“I don’t hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.”
“Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.”
“Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.”
“The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former …
“ a marvelous machine…a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!”
“We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted… Each of us contains within… this inheritance of soul. We are links between the …
“No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There’s nothing wrong with being …
“Praise the bridge that carried you over.”
“Out of the strain of the Doing, / Into the peace of the Done.”
“Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.”
“In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.”
“What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.”
“When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.”
“Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we …
“Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.”
“Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because …
“Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient …
“There is no wisdom without love.”
“Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.”
“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.”