Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.
The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.
I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.
What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them - that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free.
we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it.
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 interests; for them, we in a strange sense wish to, and do, start life anew.
do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.
I had the perfect accident for the perfect idea. I was rendered immobile where the only thing I could do is mess with my computer.
Whatever situation you are in, that is what is normal for you.
You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can’t expect years and years of it.