Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
It's all so beautiful . . . the spring . . . and books and music and fires. . . . Why aren't they enough?
Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.
Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
The demon of acedia -- also called the noonday demon -- is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all. . . . He makes it seem that the sun barely moves, if at all, and . . . he instills in the heart of the monk a hatred for the place, a hatred for his very life itself.
Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.