One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.
I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.
The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.
Life is an adventure or nothing
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming 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.
The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.
Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.
Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
Fear: the best way out is through.
The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.
Ideas without action are useless.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
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