Every man must at last accept himself for his portion and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.

From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it.

By prayer the ability is secured to feel the law of love to speak according to the law of love and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.

We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life but in a new way.

The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.

If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today then what do you need tomorrow for?

I feel there are two people inside of me - me and my intuition. If I go against her she'll screw me every time and if I follow her we get along quite nicely.

In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create as it were a new picture a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest for them we in a strange sense wish...

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

So when the crisis is upon you remember that God like a trainer of wrestlers has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games.

I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for - first a little and badly. Then bit by bit more and better. Being avidly - sometimes annoy - ingly - curious and...

Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

Wanna fly you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

In the beginning we seek truth. In the middle we seek reason. In the end we seek peace.

You are the biggest threat to your emotional and physical health if you don't set aside time for relaxation, joy, and personal growth.

It's simple; be YOU. If you're not being you, you're being someone else. YOU are not here to be someone else.

the lessons are best when the pain is worse

A lie carries a weight that is exponentially higher than the truth. Its weight will retard growth directly in proportion to the area lied.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

You may be cool under pressure and challenge, but can you be cool under success?

College is a blossoming new world of genital opportunity.

Nurture your relationships and all good things will come to you.

Besides, two kinds of people have the courage to make someone else's decisions: the hero, who comes to your rescue when you can't even cry out for help, and the tyrant. The only difference between...