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