Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What is that, grandmother?' To understand other people.' Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.

Endurance must conquer, where force could not reach.

It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.

The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.

It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.