We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness.
It stands in the light transfigured, It speaks from the heights above, "Each Soul Is Its Own Redeemer; There Is No Law But Love. "
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears.
A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
I think we need to have more women in the Republican Party talking about what it is were trying to do for families.
It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with anyone before. This kiss was so soft that it was like a memory of a kiss, so careful on my lips that it was like someone running his fingers along them.
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.
Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them.