“I rejoice in what I have and I know that fresh new experiences are always ahead. I greet the new with open arms. I trust life to be wonderful.”
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“Don't run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our lives change for the better.”
“remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism.”
“It is time we gave man faith in woman -- and, still more, woman faith in herself.”
“The road before us is shorter than the road behind.”
“We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.”
“You get there by realizing you are already there.”
“What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?”
“Whatever you want to do is more than possible. It’s what you haven’t dreamt of yet that will blow your mind”
“This is the Lord's doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes.”
“The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within — and make the point: This can be done.”
“Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.”
“Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.”
“God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope.”
“I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit - save that tiny little ember of spark.' And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.”
“I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor - even President, it seemed. And for the first time in the history of mankind, something new, called an astronaut. But like so many kids brought up on a steady diet of Westerns, I always wanted to be the avenging cowboy hero - that lone voice in the wilderness, fighting corruption and evil wherever I found it, and standing for freedom, truth and justice. And in my heart of hearts I still track the remnants of that dream wherever I go, in my endless ride into the setting sun.”
“Dry your tears, have no fears.”
“I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.”
“To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.”
“We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.”