Self is the only prison which can contain.
Never believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary – and remember that God is listening while you tell it.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.
Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.
Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, “This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way.”
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.
You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.
The birth of Jesus is the sunrise in the Bible.