Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.
I will eat grandfather for dinner.
We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.
World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.
We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.
Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.
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.
The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Look the world straight in the eye.
Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.
So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
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.
A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.
They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole.
It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
I am only one, But still I am one.
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