Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
Louisa May AlcottRead
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
Interpretation
Surround yourself with positive influences and nurture your personal growth.
This quote emphasizes the importance of surrounding oneself with positive influences, such as good friends and enriching literature, while also highlighting the need to care for both the mind and body. By cultivating these aspects faithfully, one can lead a more fulfilling and meaningful life.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal development.
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
It takes two flints to make a fire.
There are two main reasons why we may not be bringing forth the fruit we should. It may be because of ignorance, because we may never have been taught the meaning of the work of Christ for our present lives.
During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet. Practice cherishing the "simplest" person (clerks, attendants, etc) or people you dislike.
The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.
You canβt get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
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