The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.

Taking friendships for granted is one of the surest ways of ending them. Unless nourished, they tend to wither and die. Unless we earnestly desire its continuance we should never start a friendship any more than we would a love affair.

Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.

Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect vision of the Divine, and show it to others when we are disturbed with human thoughts and personal problems. It is only when we are quite still and receptive that God can think His thoughts into us and use us for His purposes.

The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

It'll be with me like it was with Uncle Ned's ole ox, I reckon; he kep' a-goin' an' a-goin' till he died a-standin' up, an' even then they had to push him over.

Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.