No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
faith, hope & motivation
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
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.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.