A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
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 betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.
Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.
When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.
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.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
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 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.
The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.
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 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.
Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
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.
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.
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.
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.
Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows
I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
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