We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.

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.

God always has a reason for what you are asked to endure.

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

Just remember, I am not going anywhere,” he said, still watching her lips. “And if you ever try to hide from me, I will not believe you are dead. I will find you. Count on it.

I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.

We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.

I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll.

People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

Your gut is always right.