There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
I just wanted to live. I never wanted to hurt anyone. Please understand.
We only need to open our eyes to see the gifts that abound all around us. These are the simple joys in life.
Just as thoughts, send out vibrations to which there is a creative and attractive power, gratitude stimulates the field of etheric energy that surrounds you on a subtle level to bring into your life more of what brings you joy.
When you open your heart with a quiet mind love rushes in.
To begin to understand your Soul as an integral part of yourself and begin to connect with your Soul as a part of your full being and your true nature, is the beginning of wisdom and the portal to true joy.
Love knows no time, or distance, and it certainly knows no reason.
The sympathies of a well-adjusted person can easily be aroused by the plight of strangers. Indeed, the skillful writer of a novel, a play, or an opera can engage our emotions on behalf of people who are not only strangers to us, but who do not even exist! And a person whose emotions cannot be so aroused is not behaving normally.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.
The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.