#grace

Remember that you must behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought round to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation.

If it be the author's pleasure you should act a poor man, a cripple, a governor, or a private person, see that you act it naturally.

If a man has reported to you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make any defense, but say: 'He did not know the rest of my faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.'

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Things arise and she lets them come; things disappear and she lets them go. She has but doesn't possess, acts but doesn't expect.

Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectation, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.

If you want to be given everything, give everything up.

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful.

There is an innocence in admiration: it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might one day be admired.

If you realize that you cannot force yourself to be good, you will begin to understand what real goodness is.

If the purpose of a dance were to get to a certain spot on the floor, the best dancer would be the one who got there the fastest.

Love is not something that is a duty. Love is an act of total, uncalculated delight.

We are all floating on an ocean of boundless grace, but we behave like paupers terrified of drowning in a teacup.

A generous person is one who gives to the right people, the right amounts, at the right times, and with pleasure.

The salvation of man is through love and in love.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Grace is to the body what good sense is to the mind.

Few people know how to be old.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

The tree that yields sweet fruit bows lowest to the ground.

The morning light does not inquire of your past before warming your face.

Let gratitude be the perfume of your daily life.

Love is the nectar that turns the mortal into the immortal.

We find ourselves when we lose ourselves in love.

When there is love, do what you will, for love has no conflict.

Joy comes when you do not seek it.