“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
Nature“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“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
Nature“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“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“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“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”
Great“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”
Age“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.”
Science“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.”
Great“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”
Business“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.”
Experience“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“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
Alone“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
Faith“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
Happiness“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.”
Best“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“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
Peace“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”
Intelligence“Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.”
Alone“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!”
War