All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.