The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.
World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps
Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.
The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.
. . . you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.
. . . the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.
If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.
(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me.
For children, most importantly, being in the garden is something magical.
It's much less romantic in that you have to go to www. cia. gov and click "Apply Now. " For me it was much more clandestine.