What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
But solitude is sadness.’ ‘Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.
Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
The shadows are as important as the light.
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should – so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere.
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter – in the eye.
Rapidly, merrily, Life’s sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
God did not give me my life to throw it away.
Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.
Remorse is the poison of life.
I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.
The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.
Your will shall decide your destiny.
