Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.
That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.
After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.
It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.
If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.
Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.
Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.
Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.
I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.
Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.
Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.
We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.
If you ruled out partial successes, there would be no progress at all.
It's hard, sometimes, when nothing's stopping you, to know what's stopping you.
Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.
Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.
A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.
If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.
The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.
Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.
What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.
The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.
I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.
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