“Sometimes the strangest stranger is ourselves. You might be good at reading everyone else, just not yourself. Your subconscious sends you hints, but if you don’t learn how to read them, you stay in the dark. The good news is, once you do—or once someone helps you—you finally get to be who you are, even if it means living with limits.”
Source: The Color of Our Names
“Truth is the spirit of all that is good and worthy through loving.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“The public good must come before private interests.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the 'true colors' of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different than one's natural self.”
Source: Healology
“I believe life is an education meant to teach us the need to be better people. And I believe this learning often takes place through trial and error which may mean being an awful person at times before clearly seeing and grasping the necessity to improve. If you don't agree with me, just ask Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge. I think Charles Dickens got it quite right.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“If we had lost our own chief good, other people’s good would remain, and that is worth trying for.”
Source: Middlemarch
“Don't use tomorrow's candle mending yesterday's wounds.”
“But in the end they were not called saints because of the way they died, or because of their visions or wondrous deeds, but because of their extraordinary capacity for the love and goodness, which reminded others of the love of God.”