Life and Existence

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them unless we were meant to be immortal.

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them unless we were meant to be immortal.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Luck is not chance, it’s toil. Fortune’s expensive smile is earned.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

It is the wounded oyster that mends its shell with pearl.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe.

It is good enough to talk of God while we are sitting here after a nice breakfast and looking forward to a nicer luncheon, but how am I to talk of God to the millions who have to go without two meals a day? To them God can only appear as bread and butter.

If the stars should appear just one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore!

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

I am an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.

I am an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.