No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. |
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing. |
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 either a great adventure or nothing. |
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. |
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. |
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. |
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. |
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. |
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. |
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. |
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. |
Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either. |
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. |
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. |
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. |
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. |
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length. |
The highest result of education is tolerance. |
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. Topics: Death |