Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.
Happiness is pleasure without regret
Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.
It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.
Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.
There's a way out of every situation.
Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others.
To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.
it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul
I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.
One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.
If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.
The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment. Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
Every heart has its own skeletons.
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