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 to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.
True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart
Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.
Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit.
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.
Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
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.
Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.
The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.
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.
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.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
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.
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
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.
The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.
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.
Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.
Things must be felt with the heart.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
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