Experience is the extract of suffering.
Arthur Helps.
“There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces...”
“The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.”
“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.”
“In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.”
“Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel for it does not easily deface their own character nor render their purposes indistinct.”
“Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.”
“Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracte...”
“Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you than it was on me. When I was arrested, it was almost a relief to know that I cou...”
“Spiritual learning is easy when we realize and experience that everything that everyone said about spirituality is already in action within us!!! Seek within rather than outside.”