Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.

Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.

You will learn that no matter how many pieces your heart was broken into, the world will not stop for you to fix it.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

Old age is no place for sissies.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.

Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.