Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.
The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
Family need not be defined merely as those with whom we share blood, but as those for whom we would give our blood.
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
From the death of each day’s hope another hope sprung up to live tomorrow.
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.
I am what you designed me to be. I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt.
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues – faith and hope.
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!