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Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

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.

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

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.

Literature is my Utopia

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

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

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.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much

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

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

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

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 is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

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

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.

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.

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

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.

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.

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.

Your success and happiness lie in you.

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…

Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

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

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 the heavens are mine!

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.

I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

La vie est une aventure audacieuse ou alors elle n'est rien.

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.

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

I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.

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.

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

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

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

I have an unshakable belief that mankind’s higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.

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