Character and Conduct – 12 November – Discontent
LOOK within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
LOOK within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
REFLECT upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
It is the replacing of all self-love by the love of our fellow-men; a direction of the soul to God through man.
Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
HAPPINESS is easy when we have learnt to renounce.
THE best help is not to bear the troubles of others for them, but to inspire them with courage and energy
‘Serve God and be cheerful.’
The cable broke, the holding anchor lost, and half our sailors swallowed in the flood – Yet lives our Pilot still.
ONE would like one’s own failures to be one’s friends’ stepping stones…
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.