“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.”

“To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.”

“More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.”

“I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.”

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”

“I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.”

“So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.”

“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.”

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

“We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.”

“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.”

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”

“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world.”

“The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.”

“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world – the company of those who have known suffering.”

“To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.”

“The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.”

“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.”

“The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.”

“The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.”

“I am younger today than I was at twenty-five. Of course the furrows of suffering have been dug deeper, but so have those of understanding sympathy and inner happiness. Whatever age may do to my earthly shell, I shall never grow cynical or indifferent—and one cannot measure the reserve power locked up in that assurance.”

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.”

“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”