Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job, ’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.

As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.

Time is exactly the amount of wealth God gives to each and every one of us on a daily basis

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

A key that opens many locks is worth buying. A lock that can be opened with many keys isn't.

There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.

I had the idea that there were secret laws of the universe that could explain the baffling human reality around me, and that philosophers maybe had the key to them.

The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

I like the rain before it falls. of course there is no such thing, she said. That's why it's my favorite. Something can still make you happy, can't it, even if it isn't real.

Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.

I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.