We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.
Fear: the best way out is through.
Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.
The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.
I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.
A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.
We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.
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