“If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.”
“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”
“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
“We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.”