A man is no bigger than the things which he allows to annoy him.

FAITH is the strongest, and most productive of the emotions.

THE SEVEN MAJOR POSITIVE EMOTIONS The emotion of DESIRE The emotion of FAITH The emotion of LOVE The emotion of SEX The emotion of ENTHUSIASM The emotion of ROMANCE The emotion of HOPE.

Much handled things are always soft(27).

Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit; everything, just a little bit, so when they brok its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.

The truth is, you do not always have power over what happens to you, but you do have complete control over what happens in you.

No matter how strong we are, there is always something that can cause the heart to flutter and the pulse to weaken.

You'll ache. And you're going to love it. It will crush you. And you're still going to love all of it.

The spirit is strengthened in sorrow. — Happiness is good for the body, but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

To relate effectively with a wife, a husband, children, friends, or working associates, we must learn to listen. And this requires emotional strength. Listening involves patience, openness, and the desire to understand—highly developed qualities of character. It's so much easier to operate from a low emotional level and to give high-level advice.

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course, things can hurt us physically or economically and can cause sorrow. But our character, our basic identity, does not have to be hurt at all.

The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.