The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.
Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
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.
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.
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.
We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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.
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.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.
A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
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.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
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.
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.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
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