Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

to everything there is an end - except fear.

... what most people tell you a confidence for is to get something off their chest which hasn't really been on it. They don't necessarily want to hide the truth from you, but they're out to hide it from themselves

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.