SaturdaySep 05, 2026
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You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is boring without it.
I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough for this life.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language was mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. 'And relationships,' he had told her, 'contained the essential meaning of life.'
Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.
We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
One faces the future with ones past.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough for this life. If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born, myself a human being.
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.
A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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