I never fight except against difficulties.
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
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...
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
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...
Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. The trouble is that very few of their...
When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pu...
Literature is my Utopia
Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it.
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.
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.
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
No pessimist discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
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.
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 g...