“Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.”
"True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us."
- Tryon Edwards
Belief
"Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven."
- Tryon Edwards
Relationships
"Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so."
- Tryon Edwards
Growth
"If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others."
- Tryon Edwards
Education
"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to use its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others."
- Tryon Edwards
Education
"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."
- Archer
Philosophy
"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."
- Paine
Philosophy
"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."
- Eric Sevareid
Philosophy
"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
Philosophy
"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."
- G.K. Chesterton
Philosophy