... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedience to your will can be transformed.

Your reactions to your enemy can hurt you more than your enemy can.

Love opens the eyes of our understanding and enables us to see more of the truth than can those who are blinded by self-love. Those who love most, see most.

Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.

God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.

O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places". "Well", he answered "the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use.

It is better to go stumbling, and weeping, and crawling like a worm along the way of love, than to give up and choose some other way.

When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over you.

Those who love most, see most.

Prayer need not be a burdensome duty. It is meant to be a joyful and creative privilege.

Humble yourself, and you will find that Love is spreading a carpet of flowers beneath your feet.

Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept.

I don't want to wear what every other women wears. I won't be dictated to.

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

Imagine that the gods have a care for everything that lives in the community of life on earth.

Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.

I think when I was younger, it was like - who cares? You don't realize the longterm effects. It takes its toll, which is I think why I'm better about it and take care of my body now more than ever.

A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them

Feeling is the voice of the body; reasoning is the voice of the mind; conscience is the voice of the spirit.

Some things need to be broken to become stronger.

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.