The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched- they must be felt with the heart.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

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

i also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. they are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours, hypocrisy in both cases is equally...

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

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.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties.

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way....

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

We are fragments of the universe,Chips of the rock whereon God laid the foundation of the world:

I began my studies with eagerness. Before me I saw a new world opening in beauty and light, and I felt within me the capacity to know all things. In the wonderland of Mind I...

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.

Our favourite amusement during that winter was tobogganing. In places the shore of the lake rises abruptly from the water’s edge. Down these steep slopes we used to coast. We would get on our toboggan,...

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

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...

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

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.

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

There are times when I long to sweep away half the things I am expected to learn; for the overtaxed mind cannot enjoy the treasure it has secured at the greatest cost. … When one...

lost” is a new link between this world and the happier land beyond the morn. My soul is for the moment bowed down with grief when I cease to feel the touch of their hands...

Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I...

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content

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

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.

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.

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

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all … The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of...

It was my teacher’s genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it...

Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. Many persons have a wrong idea of...

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life...

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

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

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

The highest result of education is tolerance

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...

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal.

Your success and happiness lie in you.

Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I...

On Power: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...

I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of...

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 pulsates with...

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.

The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.

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

Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness, and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning. What if all dark, discouraging...