May 23

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another, and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

May 23

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another, and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

May 24

The friendship between gentlemen is as pure as water, while the friendship between petty men is as sweet as wine.

May 25

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

May 26

The world has enough for everyone's need, but not everyone's greed.

May 27

Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.

May 28

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

May 29

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

May 30

It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

May 31

With each bite of delicious zongzi, the flavors of tradition and history come alive during Dragon Boat Festival.

June 1

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

June 2

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

June 3

The past was past; whatever it has been it was no more at hand.

June 4

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

June 5

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates.

June 6

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

June 7

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

June 8

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

June 9

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm.

June 10

In early June, the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.

June 11

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

June 12

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

June 13

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

June 14

If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

June 15

The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

June 16

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

June 17

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

June 18

What we call the beginning is often the end, and to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

June 19

The least possible amount of sin is the law of man: no sin at all is the dream of angels. All that is earthly is subjected to sin, for sin is a gravitation.

June 20

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.