The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

You don't have to be peculiar to find God.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses and sees perhaps for an instant perhaps for long periods of bliss an undistorted and more veritable world.

The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.

That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.

I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.

Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

On one hand, to be able to go from one direction in the sky to study such an object to another direction to study another object, and on the other hand to be able to maintain accurately the position in space.

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

I have thought about Happy Days made into a movie. As far as the original cast not being a part of it, wow, I don't know who could be who!I just don't see it going in that direction. I can see the original cast doing the movie very easily though.

But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.

No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.