What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
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 best things in life are unseen, thats why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream
Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles... Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.
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.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.
I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love.
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers and different grasses every year. When the spring winds blow, they blow in the same way. In the same places the same dear blossoms lift up the same sweet faces, yet they never weary us. When it rains, it rains as it always has. Even so would the same tasks which fill our daily lives put on new meanings if we wrought them in the spirit of renewal from within--a spirit of growth and beauty.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
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.
God doesn't promise security from life's storms but security in life's storms. God doesn't always call the equipped, but he will always equip the called. In the long run, avoiding danger is no safer than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.
We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. We elect expensive masters to do our work for us, and then blame them because they work for themselves and for their class.
The simplest way to be happy is to do good.
Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.
No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.
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