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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.
A well begun is half ended.
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.