What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.