Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know you’ll make it a better place. " -- Marmee, Little Women
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.
All businesses, including gasoline stations and restaurants, should close ever Sunday. . . by force of legislative fiat through the duly elected officials of the people.
My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner. '
But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.
We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.