Blessed is the influence of one true, loving soul on another.

Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There’s no one in the world like you. You are amazing.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

I pray Heaven to bestow the best of the blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

Can’t is the worst word that is written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is many a strong spirit broken, And with it many a good purpose dies.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.