Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. ”

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. ”

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected. ”

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances. ”

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort. ”

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other. ”

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it. ”

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe. ”

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. ”

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. ”