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.
If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'
Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses.
You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't have to be true. There's a way to drink from God's presence so much that worry begins to dissipate.
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
If each day falls _x000D_ inside each night, _x000D_ there exists a well _x000D_ where clarity is imprisoned. _x000D_ _x000D_ We need to sit on the rim _x000D_ of the well of darkness _x000D_ and fish for fallen light _x000D_ with patience.
The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
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