“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
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“A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.”
“Belief creates the actual fact.”
“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.”
“Enthusiasm moves the world.”
“There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.”
“In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.”
“It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.”
“When deeds speak, words are nothing.”
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
“Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”
“Give light and people will find the way.”
“Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”
“The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.”
“For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.”
“A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.”
“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”
“A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.”
“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”
“The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.”
“Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.”
“As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.”
“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”
“I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.”