The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.
The future ain’t what it used to be.
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.