FridayJan 02, 2026
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We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
It would be wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
There is no king who has not had a slave among his Ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
Your success and happiness lie in you.... Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
I can say with conviction that the struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. It makes us strong, patient, helpful men and women. It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcomings of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.
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.
Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real and I myself am not a dream.
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.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
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.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
My darkness had been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: 'Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes.'
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.
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 as been opened for us.
Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with useful deeds than with many prayers or pious resignation. The temple or church is empty unless the good of life fills it ... holy if only ... we offer the only sacrifices ever commandedthe love that is stronger than hate and the faith that overcometh doubt.
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge broad deep knowledge is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked mans progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.
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.
Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing.
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.
Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important.... The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.
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.
The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no obstacles to overcome.
What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!
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 soulmate, and your love.
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