Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impressions have sunk down to the bottom of the mental lake. Although they go down, they aren’t...

The first gift is Strength. May you remember to call upon it whenever you need it.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you’ve trained them.

Give someone you wronged a chance to express their true feelings and learn about yourself and your shortcomings.

The fifth gift is Hope. Through each passage and season, may you trust the goodness of life.

It is not grey hair that makes one respectable but character.

somebody” that will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others.

The seventh gift is Talent. May you discover your own special abilities and contribute them toward a better world.

We’d never talked about his parents, like he was some underwater Peter Pan.

At the wondrous moment you were born, as you took your first breath, a great celebration was held in the heavens and twelve magnificent gifts were granted to you.

Your story is not a picture of life; it lacks the elements of truth. And why? Simply because you run straight on to the end; because you do not analyze. Your heroes do this thing...

Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering, and in the process, etch within you the arcs of exceptional narrative.

The tenth gift is Wisdom. Guiding your way, wisdom will lead you through knowledge to understanding. May you hear its soft voice.

The writer’s characters must stand before us with a wonderful clarity, such continuous clarity that nothing they do strikes us as improbable behavior for just that character, even when the character’s action is, as sometimes...

The consideration of the quantity often takes the precedence over that of the quality in many significant activity of the society as the ordinary minds are in the great majority and the extraordinary brains are...

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of...

I believe the main purpose of life is to accept with gratitude what you’ve been blessed with so that you may use those gifts to mold yourself into the best person you can possibly be....

The sixth gift is Joy. May it keep your heart open and filled with light.

J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, and Tolkien was in despair. He didn’t know who...

One of the most critical decisions made in life is choosing with whom to spend your time. For it is those close relationships that gradually mold our character until we become a reflection of the...

The third gift is Courage. May you speak and act with confidence and use courage to follow your own path.

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

Choose to be good and kind and tolerant regardless of the situation or who’s involved, because life is more a matter of developing character than of dishing out just rewards.

The eighth gift is Imagination. May it nourish your visions and dreams.

I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.

Life is a character-building opportunity that we all volunteered for.

The fourth gift is Compassion. May you be gentle with yourself and others. May you forgive those who hurt you and yourself when you make mistakes.

Her father dropped her off in front of the place where she was to live and left the engine running. Lila Mae removed the two suitcases from the back of the pickup truck. The suitcases...

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

The ninth gift is Reverence. May you appreciate the wonder that you are and the miracle of all creation.

Never fear to lose your three square meal per day if that will cause you to be a fan of the truth. Never fear to have a decrease in the number of your friends if...