What we see depends mainly on what we look for

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

Yes of course I know it's all a dream. Isn't everything?

Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience to God.

I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.

Let the bugles sound the Truce of God to the whole world forever.

Do it trembling if you must, but do it!

I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free .

You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to the world.

We are synonyms but not the same.

Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.

Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.