One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
To know thyself must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.
Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
Man can't help hoping even if he is a scientist. He can only hope more accurately.
Fears are educated into us and can, if we wish, be educated out.
Unrest of the spirit is a mark of life one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure.
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
What's done to children, they will do to society.
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius.
Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories