- When one door of happiness closes, another one opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the
one which has been opened for us.
- Believe. No pessimest ever discovered the secrets of
the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to
the human spirit.
- Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when
it is lived for others.
- We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough.
- Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only
through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- 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.
- 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.
- One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse
to soar.
- Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived
to be understood.
- I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything,
but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something
I can do.
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot
be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart.
- 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.
- Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the
shadows.
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