I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.

We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.

There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future.

Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.

Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.

He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.