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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us read more
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. read more
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. [Matthew 7:7-8].
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people read more
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
A favorite has no friend!
A favorite has no friend!
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there read more
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.
You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, read more
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away….
