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.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.