You nourish your soul by fulfilling your destiny.
Being kind to others is a way of being good to yourself.
The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don’t make that contribution, nobody else can make it.
God is the One who is with us when we have to do something we don’t think we are capable of doing.
Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.
We tend to take on the coloration of the setting in which we find ourselves.
Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities that make us human emerge only in the ways we relate to other people.
I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable – and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal.
When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.
One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.
Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.
We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.
You don’t have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don’t have to be religious to perfect your soul; I have found saintliness in avowed atheists.
Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.
God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help.
Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving person.
No good deed ever goes wasted.
Love is not like a buffet line where the person in front of you threatens to take too much and leave too little for you. Love is like a muscle; the more it is exercised today, the more it can be used tomorrow.
Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. The goal is not to win every game but to win more than you lose, and if you do that often enough, in the end you may find you have won it all.
Think about it: it is easy to see God’s beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?