Everything Quotes

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

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.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

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.

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.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

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.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

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

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

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

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

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

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

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

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.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

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

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

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

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

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

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.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... 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.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.