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Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, read more
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away….
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance read more
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and read more
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old read more
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this read more
You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. . -Sandra read more
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. . -Sandra Carey.
With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.
With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
