Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.
Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.
Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!
We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
I'm always in the elements, it seems like it's pouring rain on me a lot and there's crowds of people pushing me around, and it feels very real. Which is great as a actor, you don't have to come up with too much of it. I'm always amazed.
Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.
Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me. " "Do you mean you want a secretary or something?" "No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.
I press my eyes shut and will the thoughts away. But they refuse to comply, and instead, they lodge themselves in the crevasses of my brain, poking out just enough that I know they're still with me, like a tiny splinter in your baby toe that gnaws away at you with every step you take.