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ami-jjang
Aug 6, 2006, 10:54 AM
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.



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.



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



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



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.



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.



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



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



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



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



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



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



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.



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



The highest result of education is tolerance.



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.



Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.