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.
I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.
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.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
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.
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.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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.
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.
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.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.
The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.
Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.
So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.
We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.
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.
When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life where I dwell delighted; for, dark as my path may seem to them, I carry a magic light in my heart. Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid towards the Enchanted Wood where the foliage is always green, where joy abides, where nightingales nest and sing, and where life and death are one in the Presence of the Lord.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Things must be felt with the heart.
I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.
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