If you would walk the way of love, never feel hurt nor yield to anger, but accept pain as a part of life.
—J. P. Vaswani (Indian Hindu Philosopher)
Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.
—William Ralph Inge (English Anglican Clergyman)
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
—Amos Bronson Alcott (American Teacher)
The desire for the well-being of one’s own nation can be—and must be—made compatible with the welfare of all humanity.
—Louis Leo Snyder (American-born German Scholar)
Words once printed assume a life of their own.
—Wilma Askinas
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
—E. F. Schumacher (German Mathematician)
Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad.
—Christina Rossetti (English Poet)
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
—Hannah Arendt (German Political Theorist)
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
—Louise Erdrich (American Children’s Books Writer)