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Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every heavy burden light, and equaliseth every inequality.

But what, to our eyes, may seem hopeless failure is often but the dawning of a greater success.

Failure is often the rock-bottom foundation of real success.

Failure is often the turning-point, the pivot of circumstance that swings us to higher levels.

High ideals, noble efforts will make seeming failures but trifles, they need not dishearten us; they should prove sources of new strength.

Life is a successive unfolding of success from failure.

Life is not really what comes to us, but what we get from it.

Many of our failures sweep us to greater heights of success, than we ever hoped for in our wildest dreams.

If you want to change the world, start singing when you’re up to your neck in mud.

We knew that if one man could rise above the misery then others could as well.

First comes the very extremity of distress, then follows unexpected relief.

Most of us may learn to push the barrier farther off, and to live in perfect comfort on much higher levels of power.

The fatigue gets worse up to a certain critical point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away, and we are fresher than before.

Dark pictures and gloomy forebodings are worse than useless.

The Constitution to which life was thus imparted contains within itself ample resources for its own preservation.

The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

My experience is that there is something in human nature which always makes an individual recognize and reward merit, no matter under what colour of skin merit is found.

The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn.

Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.

The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance and love!

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

We may hasten or we may retard, but we can not prevent, the final reconciliation.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.