Emotions and Feelings

We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.

We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin

 

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

Terror … often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.

 

It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.

Success doesn't come to you...you go to it.

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push and I'll say no, and they'll push again.

I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity - in all things, generosity.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

It's a dangerous business going out your front door. J. R. R.

Security is mostly superstition.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.

When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins.

Why love if losing hurts so much we love to know that we are not alone.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.