“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“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.”
Happiness“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“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.”
Happiness“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“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
Nature“What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.”
Teacher“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”
Age“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.”
Good“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“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”
Experience“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“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”
Business“Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.”
Alone“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”
Happiness“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“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!”
War“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.”
Death“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
Education“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“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”
Great“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.”
Happiness