Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.