Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspire others.

The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.

Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.