Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
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.
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.
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 has been opened for us.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
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.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
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.
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.