“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
“One cannot consent to creep when one has an impulse to soar.”
“When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?”
“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.”
“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.”
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.”
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”
“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”
“To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.”
“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”
“As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”
“We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.”
“While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.”
“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”
“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.”
“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.”
“It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.”
“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.”
“It gives me a deep comforting sense that “things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.”
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
“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.”
“I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
“The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.”
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