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

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.

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

To get Congress to do anything.

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 power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

Your success & happiness lies in you.

Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.

Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

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

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

The silent worker is imagination which decrees reality out of chaos.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

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

Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!

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 feel the flame of eternity in my soul.

No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.

Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, "There is joy in self-forgetfulness.

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

He makes you feel that if you only had a little more time, you, too, might be an inventor.

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

While they were saying it couldn't be done, it was done.

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.

The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.

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

The best things in life are unseen, thats why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream

It is always painful to set one's self against tradition, especially against the conventions & prejudices that hedge about womanhood.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

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.

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

Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.

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.

Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.

It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.

Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.

You are amazed at all the things you know which are not on the examination paper.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.

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

Blind people are just like seeing people in the dark. The loss of sight does not impair the qualities of mind and heart.

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

I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.

I am only one but still i am one

Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.

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

The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.

When one doors closes, another door opens.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.

No nation is wise enough to rule another.

The highest result of education is tolerance

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

We should respect all people.

We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.

I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!

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

Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit ...

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

The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.

The simplest way to be happy is to do good.

Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart.

Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.

The inferiority of women is man-made.

Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.

Life is an adventure or nothing

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.

Things must be felt with the heart.

The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.

Life is a daring adventure or nothing.

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

I cannot see the lovely things with my eyes, but my mind can see them all, and so I am joyful all the day long.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

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

I never fight, except against difficulties.

He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

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