When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

One honor won is a surety for more.

There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You There are two kinds of faithfulness in love: one is based on forever finding new things to love in the loved one; the other is based on our pride in being faithful.