“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.”
Great“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
Love“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.”
Great“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”
Happiness“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”
Age“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
Nature“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”
Friendship“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”
Great“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”
Patience“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.”
Great“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
Education“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”
Faith“What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.”
Teacher“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!”
War“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
Nature“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.”
Sad“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.”
Experience“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
Love“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.”
Great“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.”
Future“It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.”
God“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
Experience