The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth
Francois De La RochefoucauldRead
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The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth
Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace.
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.
We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.
It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?
Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
In time and with water, everything changes.
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
There is flattery in friendship.
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