Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.
The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.
We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.
Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!
When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.
Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.
Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.
Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.
Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.
Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.
When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.
Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.
Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!
A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.
with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!
artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.
When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
To be in the right is often an expensive business.
We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.
In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of religion, sex, and money. Without a basic knowledge of these three primary facts in a normal human being's life --subjects which stir the emotions, create events and opportunities, and if they do not wholly decide must greatly influence an individual's personality --no human being's education can have a safe foundation.
If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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