History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself.
World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.
Prayer is a concentration of positive thoughts.
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.
Actual Gratitude is the Symptom of Humility.
Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.
The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.
I majored in English in college and that was my major in graduate school before switching to creative writing. I read a lot of [Charles] Dickens and [Anthony ] Trollope, but there was lots of stuff I hadn't read like Thackeray's "Vanity Fair," which is so well written and funny.