DawnMarie1978

Not my quotes, but words of comfort, some of my favorites

It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly but firmly " I trust you do what you must" life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

To compose our character is our duty... Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, to rule, to lay up treasure, to build, are at most but little appendices and props.

In this world there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle- This everyone knows, yet seldom acts accordingly.

Do not fear going forward slowly, fear only to stand still.

Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is the promise of daylight.

Only one principle will give you courage, that is the principle that no evil lasts forever nor indeed for very long.

Only in growth reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

That the birds of worry and care fly above your head, this you cannot change. But that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.

Many run about after happiness like an absent-minded man hunting for his hat, while it is in his hand or on his head.

If we are facing in the right direction all we have to do is keep on walking.

Freedom from desire leads to inward peace

When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released.

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Grant to me that I may be made beautiful in my soul within, and that all external possesions be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.