“Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.”
Hopeful feeling
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“The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.”
“But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!”
“I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.”
“When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.”
“Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge.”
“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.”
“There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.”
“We are not here to be successful, we are here to be FAITHFUL”
“We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God”
“The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.”
“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.”
“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.”
“To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.”
“Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.”
“The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”
“Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.”
“Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.”
“Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.”
“Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it's enchanting, it's delicious, and I hope it will please you.”