Nature is beautiful in every mood, if one accepts her changes without irritation.
—Edward Howard Griggs
It is thought that transcends space and out- runs time. It is thought that conceives the infinite and the eternal. Should the material universe prove to be finite, the thought universe would remain infinite and the world of matter would be included in it as a fragment.
—Edward Howard Griggs
How difficult it is to live with people—even the best people. Small idiosyncrasies come painfully to the surface, differing opinions jar, slight elements of personality involve constant strain.
—Edward Howard Griggs
Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one’s attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.
—Edward Howard Griggs
Topics: Adversity, Difficulties
To the man of thought, already cosmopolitan, the chief value of travel is in tremendously stimulating the flow of ideas and in contributing a wealth of illustrations.
—Edward Howard Griggs
For every attainment one must renounce something. The problem of life is one of proportion. To affirm always the best, and renounce the lower, that is genius.
—Edward Howard Griggs
One should have the greatest simplicity of physical habits combined with the largest flexibility. How hard the combination is to attain, and yet how important to a life at once sane and full! It is the same problem present everywhere in living—the problem of unstable equilibrium—of an adjustment that is ever in process and never crystallized.
—Edward Howard Griggs
Work is life’s sake— not life for work’s sake. The man who cripples his life, foregoing what he should accept, that he may get on more comfortably with the world in vocational adjustment, is making the means, the end, and sinning against his own soul.
—Edward Howard Griggs
Love is the everlasting worker of miracles. When all seems hopeless, and the soul is descending upon the road that has no turning, let it be awakened to love, and immediately all the forces of the spiritual world converge upon it to lift it toward God. Love is the savior, love is the perpetual wonder of life.
—Edward Howard Griggs
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