The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen, not touched, but are felt in the heart.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.”

“We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.”

“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained.”

“The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”

“As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”

“I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!”

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

“When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one’s brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.”ins

“Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.”

“While they were saying it couldn’t be done, it was done.”

“There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.”

“Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.”

“The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.”

“What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.”

“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision.”

“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.”

“Relationships are like Rome — difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the ‘golden age’, and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt… that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.”

“The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.”

“If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.”

“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.”

“True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.”

“We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.”

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”

“A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.”

“I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.”

“I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.”

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.”

“Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.”

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

“Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister’s hand.”

“I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines—more, I have heard, than twice as much as the entire public school system costs the nation.”

“Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.”

“What a strange life I lead— a kind of Cinderella-life—half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.”

“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” –

“Literature is my Utopia.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I am only one, but still I am one.I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.”

“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”

“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.”

“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”

“It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me… if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…”

“I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.”

“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”

“I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.”