"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 within the heart."
"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."
"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."
"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."
"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."
"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."
"One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in."
"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."
"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 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 something that I can do."
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."
"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived."
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a 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."
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart"
"True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
"The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks"
"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."
"Now is the time for all good men to come to."
"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us."
"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."
"The highest result of education is tolerance."
"What I am looking for is not "out there", it is in me"
"We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough."
"Although the world is full of suffering,it is also full of the overcoming of it."
"Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!"
"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."
"My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness."
"The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next."
"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."
"My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious."
"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision."
"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."
"Knowledge is love and light and vision."
"I do not want the peace which passes the understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow."
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature."
"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."
"It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears."
"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."
"It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing."
"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."
"I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings"
"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 not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."
"The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker."
"As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill."
"Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness."
"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."
"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."
"Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful."
"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."
"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."
"We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough"
"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."
"All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming."
"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."
"Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."
"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."
"A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks."
"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."
"As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision."
"College isn't the place to go for ideas."
"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug."
"It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.""
"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others."
"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived."
"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self."
"Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."
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