Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to
be what they choose for themselves, read more

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to
be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they
satisfy you.

I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the read more

I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, at
the huge waves of the seas, at the long course read more

People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, at
the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of
rivers, at the vast compass of the oceans, at the circular motion of the
stars, and they pass themselves without even wondering.

There is no time like the pleasant.

There is no time like the pleasant.

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with
a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure read more

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with
a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring
all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a
faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping
and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental
habit.

Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental
habit.

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives read more

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.