Love is all we need.

Adam never fell till God made fools. How should you define the Monument of Folly? All the human race on one another’s shoulders. There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a defect, a want, in brief, a requirement, a crying requirement, somewhere about that man.

Many, by showing their jealous suspect of deceit, have made men see more subtle means to deceive them. Transparent natures are often deceptive in their depth; those pebbles at the bottom of the fountain are farther from us than we think. The best way to get out of a labyrinth is to retrace one’s steps.

Men are endowed with every gradation of courage, from the calm energy of reflections, which is rendered still more effective by physical firmness, to the headlong precipitation of reckless spirit; from the resolution that grows more imposing and more respectable, as there is greater occasion for its exercise, to the fearful and ill-directed energies of despair.

Decisive action is seen by appreciative minds to be frequently objectless, and sometimes fatal; but decision, however suicidal, has more charm for a woman than the most unequivocal Fabian success.

I find him charming. He atones for being occasionally somewhat overdressed by always absolutely over-educated. However, the wild beast in him is not the less deadly because it did not roar, and the devil in him not the less active because he resolved to do nothing.

A charm must be accompanied by a strong wish on the part of the charmer that it may succeed. Our virtues and vices depend too much on our circumstances. When I am in the country, I never wish to leave it; and when I am in town it is pretty much the same. They have each their advantages, and I can be equally happy in either.

If you meet each development of every question in the most natural and reasonable manner—presupposing that you possess that highest attribute of civilization, common sense—no question will ever resolve itself into a problem. And difficulties usually disappear as the range of vision contracts. Every plant which my Heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. There is no false growth and nothing for one to feed on.

I am free from all thought, or belief in, anything false or fearsome. I cast out all the fear and with it all manifestation of fear. A false idea is neither person, place, nor thing, and has no one to believe in nor experience it. I am now one with the perfect life of complete wholeness. What a man can be, he must be. This requirement we may call self-actualization.

Conformity is sometimes considered a dirty word, equated with giving up uniqueness, forsaking your ideas, goals, and personal ways of doing things—in a word, “Copping out.” However, there is some degree of conformity in nearly everything we do, even when is seems utterly unique. I may have an extremely unusual job (say I am a greased-pig chaser at county fairs), but I am conforming in that I am working for a living, not being a full-time loafer.

In New York, the sea was already full of whales. A common fish must needs disappear wholly from view—remain unseen. Let us always have men ready to give the loving pains of a life to the faithful in representing of commonplace things—men who see beauty in these commonplace things, and delight in showing how kindly the light of Heaven falls on them.

To love is to be on the sea, out of sight of land. We have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind. No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose and remain absolutely unnoticed by all the members thereof.

There are no vicious nor false habits. Every desire of my thought and heart is satisfied in the truth. I do not long for anything nor feel the lack of anything. I am complete within my temple; I am perfect within myself; I am happy and satisfied within my temple. I am one with all life within me.