When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

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

There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man. Through the centuries his time has been considered more valuable, and he has consequently been excused from wrestling with many of 'life's minor damnabilities.

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.

even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we are so busy presenting our problems, asking for help, seeking relief that we leave no moments of silence to listen for God's answers. By practice we can learn to submerge our spirits beneath the turbulent surface waves of life and reach that depth of our being where all is still, where no storms can reach us. Here only can we forget the material world and its demands on us.

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