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 | "We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough." | |
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Found in the topic Enough.
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| "It would be wonderful if there were no dark valleys to
traverse." | |
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Found in the topic Opera.
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| "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
soulmate, and your love." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "There is no king who has not had a slave among his Ancestors, and no
slave who has not had a king among his." | |
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Found in the topic Ancestors.
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| "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the
shadows." | |
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Found in the topic Attitude.
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| "Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn,
whatever state I may be in, therein to be content." | |
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Found in the topic Content.
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| "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or
even touched. They must be felt with the heart." | |
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Found in the topic Beauty.
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| "When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in
our life, or in the life of another." | |
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Found in the topic Character.
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| "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty
to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble." | |
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Found in the topic Task.
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| "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done
without hope and confidence." | |
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Found in the topic Confidence.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Book.
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| "Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge ? broad deep
knowledge ? is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To
know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man?s progress is to feel the
great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not
feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to
the harmonies of life." | |
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Found in the topic Knowledge.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Limits.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Apathy.
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| "We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy
in the world." | |
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Found in the topic Joy.
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| "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through
experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision
cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved." | |
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Found in the topic Soul.
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| "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to
soar." | |
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Found in the topic Ambition.
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| "My darkness had been filled with the light of intelligence, and
behold, the day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social
blindness." | |
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Found in the topic Blind.
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| "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 as been opened
for us." | |
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Found in the topic Door.
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| "I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the
understanding which bringeth peace." | |
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Found in the topic Peace.
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