Kari Hohne

When you place yourself in a position to help another, you will discover your greater capabilities.

The rain comes and what bends will rise. It is a purposeful journey.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth; since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love; there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most Love. What we Love, we’ll Hear; what we Love, we’ll Trust; and what we Love, we’ll serve, ay, and suffer for too. If you love me (says our Blessed Redeemer) keep my Commandments. Why? Why then he’ll Love us; then we shall be his Friends; then he’ll send us the Comforter; then whatsoever we ask, we shall receive; and then where he is we shall be also, and that for ever. Behold the Fruits of Love; the Power, Vertue, Benefit and Beauty of Love! Love is above all; and when it prevails in us all, we shall all be Lovely, and in Love with God and one with another.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

In the end, people will judge you anyway, so don’t live our life impressing other – live your life impressing yourself.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

Don’t do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.

Use every distraction as an object of meditation and they cease to be distractions.