Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).
Find your happiness in yourself.
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
It is impossible to carry the American people along with you on a program of caution to forestall a threatening position.
Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.
Living too long exacts a painful price.
At the beginning of each chapter, a heading tells us about what is happening in the chapter. We can ask, "What was going on here? What was this person feeling?" When we take time to look more closely at the scriptures, we can better understand what they can teach us. This will build our self-confidence and our testimony.