The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.
Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.
The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.
Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.
The illusion is we are only physical.
I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.
Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.
Clayton," she said softly, her voice threaded with tears, "when Vanessa asked about my accomplishments tonight, I forgot to mention that I do have one. And it's--it's so splendid that it compensates for my lack of all the others. " Stephen and Clayton grinned at each other, neither of them hearing the emotion that clogged her voice. "What splendid accomplishments is that, little one?" Clayton asked. Her shoulders hunched forward and began to shake. "I made you love me," she whispered brokenly. "Somehow, some way, I actually made you love me.
Only those who dare may fly
The older we get the more we realize that service to others is the only way to stay happy. If we do nothing to benefit others we will do nothing to benefit ourselves.