The problem is not our situation but our perception of our situation
I wonder what it's like to live in Tinaville. I get the feeling it's very shiny there.
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.
A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT.
The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.
There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.
Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.
Submit to love without thinking
I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow. . . for bitter bread, earned under the frowns of some who have no natural or divine right to be above me, and entirely owe their grandeur and honor to grinding the faces of the poor.
It is courageous to occasionally admit that there are certain things one can't do.
It is not done to let anybody be too happy. The moment two people seem to be enjoying one another's company, a good hostess introduces a third element or removes the first.