4) ”Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”
5) ”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.”
6) ”I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.”
7) ”Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.”
8) ”So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.”
9) ”When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers and different grasses every year. When the spring winds blow, they blow in the same way. In the same places the same dear blossoms lift up the same sweet faces, yet they never weary us. When it rains, it rains as it always has. Even so would the same tasks which fill our daily lives put on new meanings if we wrought them in the spirit of renewal from within–a spirit of growth and beauty.”
10) ”I think the degree of a nation’s civilization may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.”
11) ”The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.”
12) ”As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”
13) ”My friend have made the story of my life.”
14) ”The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.”
15) ”Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
16) ”Your success and happiness lie in you.”
17) ”College isn’t the place to go for ideas.”
18) ”One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.”
28) ”Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
29) ”The highest result of education is tolerance.”
30) ”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.”
31) ”The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.”
32) ”The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.”
33) ”Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world.”
34) ”Knowledge is love and light and vision.”
35) ”Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
36) ”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.”
37) ”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.”
38) ”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.”
39) ”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.”
40) ”We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.”
41) ”So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.”
42) ”Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
43) ”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.”
44) ”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.”
45) ”No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
46) ”I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.”
47) ”I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.”
48) ”To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
49) ”Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
50) ”What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.”
51) ”Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.”
53) ”I am not a perfect being. I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper. I am stubborn, impatient of hindrances and of stupidity. I have not in the truest sense a Christian spirit. I am naturally a fighter. I am lazy. I put off till tomorrow what I might better do today. I do not feel that I have been compensated for the two senses I lack. I have worked hard for all the senses I have got, and always I beg for more.”
54) ”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.”
55) ”More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.”
56) ”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.”
57) ”I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.”
58) ”People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
59) ”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.”
60) ”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.”
61) ”Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the money 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.”
62) ”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.”
63) ”A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
64) ”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.”
65) ”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.”
66) ”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.”
67) ”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.”
68) ”Literature is my Utopia.”
69) ”What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
70) ”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.”
71) ”Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.”
72) ”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.”
73) ”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.”
74) ”Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
75) ”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.”
76) ”Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.”
77) ”I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.”
78) ”I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.”
79) ”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.”
80) ”I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
81) ”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.”
82) ”True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.”
83) ”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.”
84) ”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.”
85) ”Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
86) ”The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.”
87) ”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.”
88) ”We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.”
89) ”The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision.”
90) ”What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.”
91) ”The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.”
92) ”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.”
93) ”There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.”
94) ”While they were saying it couldn’t be done, it was done.”
95) ”Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.”
96) ”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.”
97) ”One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
98) ”I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!”
99) ”As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”
100) ”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.”
101) ”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.”
102) ”We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.”
103) ”Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.”
