Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content
People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties.
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…
Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things… But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.
La vie est une aventure audacieuse ou alors elle n’est rien.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.
More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee…
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
I have an unshakable belief that mankind’s higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.
As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others’ ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.
We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world–the company of those who have known suffering.
What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched- they must be felt with the heart.
the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal.
There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
I realized that the wonder is not that conditions are so bad, but that humanity has advanced so far in spite of them. & now I am in the fight to change things. I may be a dreamer, but dreamers are necessary to make facts!
No pessimist discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
i also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. they are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours, hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.
One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
Although the world is full of suffering it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content.
Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened vision cleared ambition inspired and success achieved.
I thank God for my handicaps for through them I have found myself my work and my God.
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all-the apathy of human beings.
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.
When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart.
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination which the steadfast heart will conquer and the large mind transcend.
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to our tasks to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel towards our distant goal.
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.
Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content.
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
True happiness … is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His work.
The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way.
When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
True happiness … is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content.
Discouraged not by difficulties without or the anguish of ages within the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: “Be not dismayed in the future lies the Promised Land.”
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare social justice can never be attained.
[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Believe when you are most unhappy that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain life is not in vain.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.
When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
I do not want the peace which pass-eth understanding I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
When we do the best that we can we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. … Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His works.
I seldom think about my limitations and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague like a breeze among flowers.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in this world.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened vision cleared ambition inspired and success achieved.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.
Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it.
It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong but it will advance its allotted length.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.