The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
- Topic: Dreams, Goals, Purpose, Vision
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
What makes night within us may leave stars.
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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Remember your dreams and fight for them. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:the fear of failure.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
Looking at the stars always makes me dream.
When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.
As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
Change, But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.
It matters not what goal you seek It's secret here reposes; You've got to dig from week to week To get Results and Roses.
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
If we do not make common cause to save the good old ship of the Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.
There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.
But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
