Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you WILL to love somebody, you can.
Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold!
Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods. . . and real ethics reform at City Hall.
Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?
Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.
Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.
Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I’m in love with the one that got away.
You see everything depends upon the psychological headquarters from which we live. 'Where am I living from?' Ask yourself that question. If you don't like your headquarters, you can move any time you like. Break away. Don't tell anyone about it. Others will either smile tolerantly or mouth sanctimonious babble. Make your escape plans in secret. Never mind if you lose certain friends, you will find others who also have dared. They will be ten-thousand times more valuable to you.
You should thank the people who bring out the worst in you. Had it not been for them, you would never have come to know of your worst side.
There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.
In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially if the wealth has been accumulated rapidly. For great wealth is accumulated rapidly by cunning or chance, or a mixture of the two. Cunning has nothing to do with high qualities; it is rather a presumption against them; while chance has nothing to do with them either. Therefore it is that men are always complaining after meeting So-and-so, that he seemed to be astonishingly stupid, though he made a million in ten years and started as a pauper.