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There will never be another now - I'll make the most of today. There will never be another me - I'll make the most of myself.
I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.
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.
Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.
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.
If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.
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.
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.
The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.
What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
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.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.
I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.
Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.
I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.
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.
The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.
People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.
People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.
Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.
The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.
The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.
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.
Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.
The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
The joy of surmounting obstacles which once seemed unremovable, and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further — what joy is there like unto it?
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.
It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.
The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.
I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
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 feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.
When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.
Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows
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.
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
Truly I have looked in 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.