If you change your thoughts you can change your actions.
you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.
Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.
Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?
It is indeed impossible to describe reality 'in itself', but that does not mean that our lives are answerable to nothing but our own conventions and commitments. They are answerable to a way of things that transcends the reach of our conceptual schemes.
What does it matter, if we tell the same old stories?. . . Stories tell us who we are. What we’re capable of. When we go out looking for stories we are, I think, in many ways going in search of ourselves, trying to find understanding of our lives, and the people around us. Stories, and language tell us what’s important.
Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.