I feel like I've been split open and stuffed with sunshine.
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Learn to. . . be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
I always have two bracelets on my right arm. One is a purple and white bracelet from a fan. I love it! I also wear a bracelet from a waterpark- I've had it on for two or three years. My mom says it's pretty nasty, actually. But you'll never see me without them ever! In magazine photos, the bracelets are sometimes airbrushed out, but viewers will always see me wearing them during scenes.
It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.
One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as "those evil people" or "those poor people who need our help. " Nor must we search for signs of "loveworthiness. " Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.
Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house.