You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'
Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.
It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.
None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.
doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.
the heart never grows old.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
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