Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.
Most mothers kiss and scold together.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'
But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.
What the common man cannot understand he hates.
No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.
Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.
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