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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

If we never take a risk, we’ll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Stop worrying and start living.

The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies.

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.

On the back of Satan’s neck is a nail scarred footprint.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality. Without it, whatever abilities you may possess lie dormant; and it is safe to say that nearly every man has more latent power than he ever learns to use. You may have knowledge, sound judgment, good reasoning faculties; but no one-not even yourself-will know it until you discover how to put your heart into thought and action.

Most people don’t remember names, for the simple reason that they don’t take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we then eliminate all those vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problem.

The value of a smile… It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rich they can get along without it, and none so poor but are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends.

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

if you want to keep happiness , you have to share it !

You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.