Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.
What we do not understand we have no right to judge
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.
At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also - He above all - is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended.
True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.
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