“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.”
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It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
