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.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Happiness   
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Beauty   
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
Subject:
Character   
Enemy   
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When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Subject:
Appearance & Attitudes   
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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.
Subject:
Evil   
Listening   
Loneliness   
Work: My Religion, 1927
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Subject:
Ambition   
Desires   
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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.
Subject:
Beauty   
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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Hope & Dreams   
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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.
Subject:
Character   
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Motivational   
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security 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 exposure.
Subject:
Life   
Work: The Open Door (1957)
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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Subject:
Patience   
Work:
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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.
Subject:
Happiness   
Work:
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People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Subject:
Thinking   
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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
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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.
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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
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One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.
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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
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