Adam Quotes
Helping someone feel they belong is a magic all its own.
Faith is the deepest and truest form of magic.
Oh, my child, can you not see? You must let go of yourself. For if a seed wishes to live, it must sacrifice itself and grow outward, not inward.
You can't defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you.
Don't give in to the darkness, for there is so much life ahead of you.
Truth is the greatest strength we have against the darkness.
Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.
Honesty is the only way to fight the inner demons.
Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's
There are no shortcuts through the wilderness of life.
It is only through seeking that we find what we are looking for.
The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.
I have learned that I always feel happier and healthier when I offer genuine love to other people.
Every man, woman, and child on this earth is a wandering pilgrim in his or her own way—each searching for a belonging place. That sense of belonging is found only as we care for one another.
We always have a choice. Only you can decide what you become.
You are taking things far too literally. Everything you see is merely a symbol for things you do not see. Most of the people of this world are asleep in their minds.
Most of the people of this world are asleep in their minds.
It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.
If we have the power and the means, then we must help.
My life is too short, and God’s work is too great for me to think of making a home for myself in this world.
We may not be able to control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react.
I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.
Perhaps we are not really sinners in the hands of an angry God, after all. Perhaps we are all more like seedlings in the hands of a wise gardener.
If you truly love someone, have the faith to 'let them go.' Encourage them to be the fullest measure of themselves, and you will be overwhelmed by the love that your spouse returns to you.
Life is less about finding and more about seeking.
A bruised apple is not all bad. It still has tremendous potential.
Marriage should liberate, not incarcerate. Real love shouldn't limit a person's potential, it should expand it.
She had forgotten his faults as we forgetthe sorrows of our departed childhood.
Abandon the idea that you will forever be the victim of the things that have happened to you. Choose to be a victor.
He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age.
College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t’ hold the stuff as is poured into ‘em.
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception.
You are worth infinitely more than you could possibly imagine.
There's nothing more important in this world than caring for a child.
Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information.
People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices.
What can be added to the happiness of man who is in health out of debt and has a clear conscience?
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth--about everything. That will teach them
Somehow the idyllic existence I envisioned never quite came to pass, but aside from the occasional culinary disaster, my marriage wasn't bad.