The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.
Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, ‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.
There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.
One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.
I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must come. It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe. If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well, the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.
This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.
The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities.
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