No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
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 pri...
God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His works.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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...
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
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...
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...
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in this world.
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.
What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.
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...
There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.
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.
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.
Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship tense and anxious groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-li...