Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Relationships are like Rome — difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the ‘golden age’, and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt… that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your 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.
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.
Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
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.
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.
Blindness separates people from things;
deafness separates people from people.
People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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.
Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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.
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.
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.