One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.

One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we read more

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs read more

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24].

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate read more

Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other read more

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is read more

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.