The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

I think I’ve got wiser.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

I am just one human being.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

I’m selfish.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

You can’t trust very many people.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.