Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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