As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.
Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.
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.
The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.
Look the world straight in the eye.
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.
Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole.
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.
I am only one, But still I am one.
A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
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 commanded-the love that is stronger than hate and the faith that overcometh doubt.
The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honored antiquities.
It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.
The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
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