O. Henry Quotes
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.
I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.
Grace is the very opposite of merit... Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite.
Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.
Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.
If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others.
I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.
Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.
If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.
Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society that has ever existed on the face of the earth.
Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.
The key is to produce something that both pulls people together and gives them something to do.
For someone's character to grow, it has to be free from internal attack. Falling down never stopped children from developing. But getting yelled at, criticized, and put down can stop them for life.
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief and practice.
Heavenly Father hears your prayers, He loves you. He knows your name. He loves you beyond your ability to comprehend.
Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.
There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.
There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.